BL/Gay - 2010 BELOW

Under the pressure of the Yuan Kingdom, the King of Goryeo is pressured to produce a successor to the throne. But the king is in love with his loyal general, Hong Rim. After seriously pondering the issue, the king asks his lover, Hong Rim, to sleep with the Queen, with unexpected consequences. 

• Type: Movie
• Format: Feature Film
• Country: South Korea
• Release Date: Dec 30, 2008
• Duration: 2 hr. 13 min.
• Content Rating: 18+ Restricted (violence & profanity)

Genres: Historical, Romance, Drama

Tags: Sexual Content, Infidelity, LGBTQ+, Nudity, Goryeo Dynasty, Love Triangle, Gay Male Lead, Forbidden Love, Death, Erotic

Ootani and Tachibana have been inseparable since high school. Now that they're in college, they live together, they're happy and everything seems perfect. But their little world is disrupted when they meet an old high school friend, Yuki, who seems to have a crush on Tachibana, making Ootani feel jealous and insecure. Will Tachibana really choose him over a pretty girl?

• Type: Movie
• Format: Feature Film
• Country: Japan
• Release Date: Oct 27, 2007
• Duration: 1 hr. 12 min.
• Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

Genres: Romance, Youth

Tags: Gay Romance, LGBTQ+, Cohabitation, Adapted From A Manga, Student Male Lead, School Setting, Young Adult Male Lead, Gay Male Lead, Jealous Male Lead, Childhood Sweethearts

Hirofumi and Shinji are colleagues at the same advertising agency. Hirofumi works in IT, and Shinji is on the company's elite fast track. The two start off completely on the wrong feet, but as time passes they find themselves falling for each other. 

• Type: Movie
• Format: Feature Film
• Country: Japan
• Release Date: Aug 7, 2010
• Duration: 1 hr. 30 min.
• Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

Genres: Business, Romance, Drama

Tags: Gay Romance, Hardworking Male Lead, Mild Sexual Content, Office Worker Male Lead, Secret Crush, Awkward Male Lead, Bisexual Male Lead, Smoking, Co-workers' Relationship, Childhood Friends' Relationship

Kafka is straight while Daniel happens to be gay. The young men fall in love, believing that their love can bridge anything, despite their difference in sexuality and Kafka's drug-taking. Daniel does not regret his love for Kafka, who tries to love him back against his nature. But a flashback memory from Kafka's past makes it difficult for their relationship to work. It turns out that their addiction to love proves more fatal than the drugs they use to explore the boundaries of their friendship. 

• Type: Movie
• Format: Feature Film
• Country: Hong Kong
• Release Date: Apr 8, 2010
• Duration: 1 hr. 37 min.
• Content Rating: 18+ Restricted (violence & profanity)

Genres: Romance, Drama

Tags: Gay Romance, Drug Usage, Hallucination, Nudity, Drug Addiction, Bisexual Male Lead, LGBTQ+, Difficult Adulthood, Graphic Violence, Gay Male Lead

Ai Chao means Artemisia. It's also the name of this film's protagonist — a 58-year-old Taiwanese woman. When Ai Chao was young, without her mother's approval, she married her mainland-born husband, who was 20 years her senior. After her husband died 20 years ago, she raised her son and her daughter by herself. Now, not only have her children grown up, but the social norm in Taiwan has also changed. It's Ai Chao's turn to face the reality of her family affairs. Despite the conflicts and gaps in generations and culture, the bond and love in a family ultimately prevail 

• Type: Movie
• Format: Feature Film
• Country: Taiwan
• Release Date: May 25, 2008
• Duration: 1 hr. 25 min.
• Content Rating: G - All Ages

Genres: Romance, Life, Drama, Family

Tags: Gay Male Lead, Gay Romance, Grandma-Granddaughter Relationship, Disapproving Parent, Secret Relationship, LGBTQ+, Mother-Son Relationship, Mother-Daughter Relationship, Character Development

A frank and candid portrait of the lives and family relations of three gay teenagers in Taipei. One breaks up with his boyfriend before going abroad to study, the other craves for love, and the third one moonlights as a crossdresser. A bold statement against norms in a Confucian society.

• Type: Movie
• Format: Feature Film
• Country: Taiwan
• Release Date: Oct 15, 1999
• Duration: 1 hr. 3 min.
• Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

Genres: Romance, Documentary

Tags: Gay Male Lead, Gay Romance, LGBTQ+ 

Taipei in the 1970s was a very intolerant place for homosexuals. This story is about a young man named A Qing whose family cut him off because of his sexual orientation. 

• Type: Drama
• Format: Standard Series
• Country: Taiwan
• Episodes: 20
• Aired: Feb 17, 2003 - Mar 14, 2003
• Aired On: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
• Original Network: PTS
• Duration: 55 min.
• Content Rating: G - All Ages

Genres: Romance, Life, Youth, Drama

Tags: Difficult Adulthood, Violent Sibling, Sex Industry, Prostitute Male Lead, Gay Male Lead, Brothers' Relationship, Family Relationship, 1970s, LGBTQ+, Social Issues

Three women in three different periods navigate the waters of sexual identity in Zero Chou's sensitive portrait of the search for self and love. Three loosely connected episodes illuminate the flux of life: Young Meigo struggles to understand her feelings of jealousy when her older sister begins a romantic relationship; Alzehimer's sufferer Lily lives her life between moments of lucidity and rememberances of her dead lover with the help of an old friend; and teenager Chalkie tries to reconcile her awakening sexuality with her body. 

• Type: Movie
• Format: Feature Film
• Country: Taiwan
• Release Date: Feb 10, 2008
• Duration: 1 hr. 45 min.
• Content Rating: 18+ Restricted (violence & profanity)

Genres: Romance, Drama

Tags: Lesbian Female Lead, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Romance, Musician Female Lead, Singer Female Lead, Neurological Disorder, Sisters' Relationship, Time Skip, Illness, Blindness

A park in the midst of Beijing, surrounded by old palaces, is frequently searched by the local police as it is one of the secret meeting places for the local gay scene. The young writer A Lan, on several occasions, runs into policeman Xiao Shi who ends up arresting the young man one evening and takes him to the park's police station. After one intense night of interrogation, which turns into A Lan telling the story of his past, Xiao Shi finds himself wondering whether his arrest of A Lan had other motives than he initially thought.

This movie was forbidden by Chinese authorities for its open depiction of homosexuality in Mainland China when it first came out, and director Yuan Zhang was arrested for a short time and his passport taken away from him temporarily. Yet he managed to get a copy of the movie out of the country, and "East Palace, West Palace" has been aired at prestigious film festivals all over the world.

• Type: Movie
• Format: Feature Film
• Country: China
• Release Date: Nov 1, 1996
• Duration: 1 hr. 31 min.
• Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Genres: Crime, Life, Drama

Tags: Police Department Setting, Writer Male Lead, Police Officer Male Lead, Gay Male Lead, Masochism, Discrimination, LGBTQ+, Social Issues, Nudity, Violence

Inseparable childhood friends Shou Heng and Cheng Shing have their world thrown into chaos when a new girl comes to town and falls for Shou Heng. 

• Type: Movie
• Format: Feature Film
• Country: Taiwan
• Release Date: Oct 13, 2006
• Duration: 1 hr. 42 min.
• Content Rating: 18+ Restricted (violence & profanity)

Genres: Romance, Life, Youth, Drama 

Tags: Unrequited Love, Love Triangle, Taiwanese New Wave Cinema, LGBTQ+, Sexual Content, Nudity, Student Female Lead, Student Male Lead, Childhood Friends' Relationship, Best Friends' Relationship

Zhang Jia Wei and Chen Zhi Hao are a gay couple, whose love lost its glamour after three years. At this time, the single stud He Ye smashed into the life of the two. He Ye, a possessive man, took interest in men after toying with relationships with many women. He saw the conquering of men more of a challenge than making women fall for him. To possess Chen Zhi Hao, He Ye seduced Zhang Jia Wei, which led to the love problems of the couple. Zhang Jia Wei, a naïve young boy, could not handle the seduction of the sophisticated He Ye and began to question the love between Chen Zhi Hao and himself.

**The directorial debut of 21-year-old undergraduate student Shen Wei Wei. According to him, “Fire in Silence is neither a mere film about homosexuality nor a simple gay story, but rather, a portrait of one of the innermost desire[s] of human beings – the possessive instinct – [as seen] through gay characters. Human beings, born with desires, will stop at nothing, even at the cost of their basic conscience, to pursue what they want, whether it is power, money or love. He Ye [the seducer] is the epitome of everyone in this world.”

• Title: Fire in Silence
• Type: Movie
• Format: Feature Film
• Country: China
• Release Date: Apr 25, 2009
• Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

Genres: Romance, Drama

Tags: Gay Male Lead, Gay Romance, Bisexual Male Lead, Possessive Male Lead, Gay Relationship, LGBTQ+

Set in China in the 1930s, the film is about the unsettling relationship between three characters. Ing Er, the daughter of a theater-owner, welcomes the return of Shao Dung, her fiancé and a fine cellist from America. Shao Dung soon finds himself captivated by the opera "Fleeing by Night" and its celebrated actor, Lin Chung, whose voice seems to articulate something within himself. While Shao Dung attempts to blend eastern and western music, Ing Er becomes torn between her affection for both men and an awareness of the growing intimacy between them. 

• Type: Movie
• Format: Feature Film
• Country: Taiwan
• Release Date: Oct 14, 2000
• Duration: 2 hr. 0 min.
• Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

Genres: Historical, Romance, Drama

Tags: Chinese Republican Era, LGBTQ+, Crime Against Morality, Sexual Violence, Cellist Male Lead, Musician Male Lead, Engaged Female Lead, Gay Male Lead, Gay Romance, Engaged Male Lead

Cradling his lucky condom, naive country boy Tien goes to Taipei to meet an internet friend. Being a romantic and believing only in true love, he is sorely disappointed when his internet friend, Kevin, suggests they have sex with no love. Tien instead goes to a bar and runs into his ex-classmate Yu, unwilling to part with his virginity outside the context of a passionate love affair. At the club, he encounters the 'Number One Playboy': Bai Tieh Nan, who is famous for one night stands. Despite professing his dislike for men who play with love, Tien can't help being drawn to Bai.

• Type: Movie
• Format: Feature Film
• Country: Taiwan
• Release Date: Apr 2, 2004
• Duration: 1 hr. 33 min.
• Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama

Tags: Gay Romance, Innocent Male Lead, Gay Male Lead, LGBTQ+, Virgin Male Lead, Playboy Male Lead, Gay Supporting Character, First Love, Friendship

Indulging in physical pleasure and substances, Little Hai desires freedom. "Fragile in Love" is an experimental short that rebels against the suppression of electronic music culture and gay house parties. Xiao Hai visits a high party in the silent deep blue ocean. At the terminal station along the coast of his ventures into different friendships, he misses his boyfriend Yu.

• Type: Movie
• Format: Feature Film
• Country: Taiwan
• Release Date: Jun 29, 2007
• Duration: 13 min.
• Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

Genres: Romance, Sports

Tags: Short Film, LGBTQ+, Gay Male Lead, Adapted From A Poem, Gay Romance

A Shin and A Hong are close friends, but gradually A Shin started to have feelings for A Hong. A Hong decided to join the G-Boys, a gay beauty contest in order to gain 10 million in prize money to pay his selfish and wasteful girlfriend's credit card debt. At the same time, a somewhat homophobic detective, Jay, is assigned to pretend to be gay and join the contest to investigate a series of death threats sent by a homophobic man. 

• Type: Movie
• Format: Feature Film
• Country: Taiwan
• Release Date: Sep 6, 2006
• Duration: 1 hr. 19 min.
• Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama

Tags: LGBTQ+, Gay Romance, Homophobia, Gay Supporting Character, Male Centered Plot, Pretends To Be Gay, Beauty Pageant, Friends To Lovers, Musician Male Lead, Police Officer Male Lead

A brain-dead man is abused by his mother and cared for by his family's maid. Meanwhile, a homeless day laborer is severely beaten by a mob before being carried home by a group of men, including Rawang, a Bangladeshi migrant worker. Rawang nurses the day laborer back to health. The day laborer and maid eventually meet and start a romantic relationship. 

• Type: Movie
• Format: Feature Film
• Country: Taiwan
• Release Date: Apr 13, 2007
• Duration: 1 hr. 55 min.
• Content Rating: 18+ Restricted (violence & profanity)

Genres: Romance, Drama, Mature

Tags: Gay Male Lead, Taiwanese New Wave Cinema, Co-produced, LGBTQ+, Erotic, Nudity, Extreme Sexual Content

Tozaki is a young freelance writer who meets by chance his first high school crush, Kurata, while working on an assignment. Passion soon arises between them and they begin a relationship that will be affected by numerous ups and downs, mainly due to Kurata's jealousy towards Tozaki's senpai, Miyata. Kurata not only discovers that Miyata is Tozaki's boss, but also his ex-boyfriend and suspects he might still be in love with him. 

• Type: Movie
• Format: Feature Film
• Country: Japan
• Release Date: Sep 4, 2010
• Duration: 1 hr. 27 min.
• Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

Genres: Romance, Drama

Tags: Gay Romance, Meet Again, LGBTQ+, First Love, Possessive Male Lead, Gay Male Lead, Adapted From A Manga, High School Crush, First Love Returns, Jealous Male Lead

Min Soo is on leave from the military and visits his boyfriend Seok Yi. While having fun out on the town, they run into Min Soo's mother! When Min Soo's mother asks about their relationship, Seok Yi replies "... just friends." Making things more complicated, Min Soo's mother ends up sleeping with them that night! 

• Type: Movie
• Format: Independent Film
• Country: South Korea
• Release Date: Dec 17, 2009
• Duration: 29 min.
• Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Tags: Short Film, Gay Male Lead, Gay Romance, Secret Relationship, LGBTQ+, Independent Film, Soldier Male Lead, Mild Sexual Content, Military, Military Enlistment

This is a documentary about sweetness and hurt, pursuit and loss. It is a bluebird's song of comrades and their joy, tinged with melancholy premonition-a song that comes from afar as though to rub shoulders with life directly, only to pass on. A story of two marriages, one lesbian and one gay. The parallel structure lays bare the complexity of queer love, but also the cruelty inherent to love itself. Domestic violence, faithfully captured by the camera, threads its way like a deep silent river, cutting out its course and leaving a path of marks and scars. The survivor is like a child who cannot explain, but can only remember.

• Type: Movie
• Format: Feature Film
• Country: Taiwan
• Release Date: 2003
• Duration: 45 min.
• Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

Genres: Romance, Documentary

Tags: Lesbian Female Lead, Gay Male Lead, Lesbian Romance, Gay Romance, Lesbian Relationship, Gay Relationship, LGBTQ+

The first public gay wedding in Taiwan has stirred up considerable controversy, including a local campaign to ban this film. It tells the story of Yosheng and Gary, the first gay couple to have a public wedding in Taiwan. Their wedding was held in conventional Taiwanese fashion: a wedding banquet with friends and family and even the mayor of Taipei as the promised wedding moderator. 

• Type: Movie
• Format: Feature Film
• Country: Taiwan
• Release Date: Nov 8, 1997
• Duration: 50 min.
• Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

Genres: Romance, Documentary

Tags: Gay Male Lead, Gay Romance, Gay Relationship, LGBTQ+