Lan Yu
Director: Stanley Kwan
Genre: LGBT, Romance Film, World cinema, Political drama, Romantic drama, Gay, Gay Interest, Gay Themed, Historical Film, Drama
Year: 2001
Country: Hong Kong
Language: Standard Mandarin
Starring: Hu Jun, Liu Ye, Su Jin, Li Huatong, Fang Lu, Zhang Yongning, Li Shuang, Zhao Minfen, Zhang Fan
Lan Yu (Chinese: 藍宇; pinyin: Lán Yǔ) is a gay-themed Hong Kong-Chinese film by Hong Kong director Stanley Kwan in 2001.
The movie is based on a novel published anonymously on the Internet in 1998. The filming itself took place in Beijing, without government permission.
The movie, which was directed by internationally acclaimed director Stanley Kwan, tells a romantic and tragic love story of two men. The story is set in Beijing in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and makes vivid reference to the Tiananmen Square massacre. The film can be counted as a mainland-made movie as most of the crew are from mainland China.
In the movie, Lan Yu (Liu Ye), an architecture student in desperate need of money, finds himself in the bed of successful businessman Chen Handong (Hu Jun). While Lan Yu falls in love, Chen tries his best to avoid emotional attachment, showering Lan Yu with expensive gifts and even getting married. However, as the years go by, Chen soon realizes that he cannot live without Lan Yu.
This film received positive reviews from critics, and won numerous awards in various movie festivals throughout Hong Kong and Taiwan, including Liu Ye's win for Best Actor at Taiwan's 38th Golden
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