Jun Hu

  • Yuan Zhang – Dong gong xi gong AKA East Palace, West Palace (1996)

    Yuan Zhang1991-2000AsianChinaDrama
    Dong gong xi gong (1996)
    Dong gong xi gong (1996)

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    The most daring and achieved of all the ‘illegal’ independent films made in China in the ’90s – and quite probably the last, since it prompted the Film Bureau to formally outlaw unauthorised production and confiscate the directors Zhang Yuan’s passport.Read More »

  • Stanley Kwan – Lan Yu (2001)

    2001-2010DramaHong KongQueer Cinema(s)Stanley Kwan

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    Beijing, 1988. On the cusp of middle-age, Chen Handong has known little but success all his life. The eldest son of a senior government bureaucrat, he heads a fast-growing trading company and plays as hard as he works. Few know that Handong’s tastes run more to boys than girls. Lan Yu is a country boy, newly arrived in Beijing to study architecture. More than most students, he is short of money and willing to try anything to earn some. He has run into Liu Zheng, who pragmatically suggests that he could prostitute himself for one night to a gay pool-hall and bar owner.Read More »

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