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Spring Fever (2009)

Summary: Hired to spy on a philandering husband, Luo Haitao soon becomes entangled in a clandestine affair with the other man. Along with Luo's girlfriend, they succumb to the delirium of drunken nights, but how long can their tryst last?

Release Date: April 14, 2010

Genre: Drama

Director: Ye Lou

Writer: Feng Mei

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

Production: Dream Factory, Rosem Films

Distributor: Strand Releasing

Countries: China, France

Language: Chinese

Domestic: $ 10,824

International: $ 150,286

17 sui de tian kong (2004)

Summary: A gay teenager falls for an architect after moving to the city to find a summer job.

Release Date: April 02, 2004

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Yin-jung Chen

Writer: Rady Fu

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Three Dots Entertainment Company

Distributor: Strand Releasing, Asian Crush, Digital Media Rights

Country: Taiwan

Language: Chinese

Domestic: $ 15,427

International: $ 32,831

Lan Yu (2001)

Summary: A young, gay student has a relationship with an older, successful businessman. The handsome playboy-businessman must choose between his comfortable, yet closeted straight life, or an honest, yet subversive life with the student.

Release Date: November 22, 2001

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Stanley Kwan

Writer: Jimmy Ngai

Runtime: 1 h 26 min

MPAA: R

Production: Kwan's Creation Workshop, Yongning Creation Workshop

Distributor: Golden Scene, Strand Releasing

Countries: Hong Kong, China

Language: Chinese

Domestic: $ 116,325

International: $ 3,731,639

Saving Face (2004)

Summary: A gay Chinese-American and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations.

Release Date: June 24, 2005

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Alice Wu

Writer: Alice Wu

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

MPAA: R

Production: Destination Films, Forensic Films, GreeneStreet Films, Overbrook Entertainment

Distributor: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,187,266

International: $ 49,252

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Miss Granny (2015)

Summary: A 70-year old woman living unhappily with her son's family is magically restored to her beauty of 50 years earlier. Complications ensue.

Release Date: January 16, 2015

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Music

Director: Leste Chen

Writers: Dong-ik Shin

, Yoon-jeong Hong

, Hee-seon Dong

Runtime: 2 h 11 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Beijing Century Media Culture, CJ Entertainment, C2M Media, Zhejiang Huace Film & TV, Media Asia Films, Zhejiang Huace Film & TV, CatchPlay, Invincible Plan, Pegasus Ubiquitous Culture Media, Beijing Century Media International, Tianjin Century Media, China Film Group Corporation (CFGC)

Distributor: CJ Entertainment

Countries: China, South Korea, Taiwan

Language: Chinese

Domestic: $ 234,573

International: $ 59,161,738

Boiling Point (1990)

Summary: Two disquieted junior baseball players seek revenge on the local yakuza for attacking their coach.

Release Date: November 19, 1999

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime

Director: Takeshi Kitano

Writer: Takeshi Kitano

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Bandai Visual Company, Shochiku-Fuji Company, Yamada Right Vision Corporation

Distributor: Film Movement, Fox Lorber

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 1,471

Okoge (1992)

Summary: Sayoko, a young woman, meets Goh and his older gay lover Tochi, and invites them to use a room in her apartment. The three become good friends until Tochi's wife threatens to expose Tochi to his office workers. Tochi leaves and Go...

Release Date: April 02, 1993

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Takehiro Nakajima

Writer: Takehiro Nakajima

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

Production: Int-Group Film

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 251,032

Spa Night (2016)

Summary: A closeted Korean-American teenager takes a job at a Korean spa to help his struggling family, only to discover an underground world of gay sex at the spa that both scares and excites him.

Release Date: November 02, 2017

Genre: Drama

Director: Andrew Ahn

Writer: Andrew Ahn

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Nonetheless Productions, Extraordinary Renditions

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 38,578

Ooru naito rongu 2 (1995)

Summary: In downtown Japan, a lonely computer nerd tries to maintain a peaceful existance while being stalked by a gang of deviant homosexuals who want to use him for their brutal S&M activities.

Release Date: February 10, 1995

Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery

Director: Katsuya Matsumura

Writer: Katsuya Matsumura

Runtime: 1 h 08 min

Production: Daiei

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Dolls (2002)

Summary: Three stories of never-ending love.

Release Date: October 12, 2002

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Takeshi Kitano

Writer: Takeshi Kitano

Runtime: 1 h 54 min

Production: Bandai Visual Company, Office Kitano, TV Tokyo, Tokyo FM Broadcasting Co.

Distributor: Palm Pictures

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 4,067

International: $ 5,401,658

East Palace, West Palace (1996)

Summary: Before the 1990s P.R.China criminalized the LGBT population. Without family law and marriage law for the LGBT couples, many had to secretly encounter for sexual activities with the risk of police arrests.

Release Date: July 24, 1998

Genre: Drama

Director: Yuan Zhang

Writers: Xiaobo Wang

, Yuan Zhang

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

Production: Amazon Entertainment Ltd., Hubert Bals Fund, Ministrère de la Culture Français, Ministère des Affaires Étrangères, Ocean Films, Quelqu'Un D'Autre Productions

Distributor: Strand Releasing

Country: China

Language: Chinese

Domestic: $ 46,470

Bishonen (1998)

Summary: The emotional travails of a handsome gigolo and a hunky cop, who are trying to come to terms with their sexuality.

Release Date: August 14, 1998

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Yonfan

Writer: Yonfan

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

Production: Far Sun Film Co Ltd.

Country: Hong Kong

Language: Chinese

Domestic: $ 18,629

Margaret Cho: Notorious C.H.O. (2002)

Summary: A film of Margaret Cho's one-woman stand-up show, in which she presents her take on modern sexual topics and minority issues.

Release Date: June 13, 2002

Genres: Documentary, Comedy

Director: Lorene Machado

Writer: Margaret Cho

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

Production: Cho Taussig Productions, Little Men Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,033,395

Vanguard (2020)

Summary: Covert security company Vanguard is the last hope of survival for an accountant after he is targeted by the world's deadliest mercenary organization.

Release Date: November 20, 2020

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Director: Stanley Tong

Writers: Stanley Tong

, Tiffany Tong

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: China Film (Shanghai) International Media Co., China Film Group Corporation (CFGC), Epitome Capital, Epitome, Shenzhen Media Film & Television, Tencent Pictures

Distributor: Discovery Force Channel, Gravitas Ventures, Lionsgate Home Entertainment

Country: China

Language: Chinese

Domestic: $ 793,525

International: $ 50,073,376

Tokyo Godfathers (2003)

Summary: On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo discover a newborn baby among the trash and set out to find its parents.

Release Date: November 08, 2003

Genres: Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Director: Satoshi Kon

Writers: Satoshi Kon

, Keiko Nobumoto

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Dentsu, Genco, Madhouse, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Tokyo Godfathers Production Committee

Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, Samuel Goldwyn Films, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE)

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 367,131

International: $ 86,002

Memories of Murder (2003)

Summary: In a small Korean province in 1986, two detectives struggle with the case of multiple young women being found raped and murdered by an unknown culprit.

Release Date: May 02, 2003

Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Director: Bong Joon Ho

Writers: Bong Joon Ho

, Kwang-rim Kim

, Sung-bo Shim

Runtime: 2 h 12 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Sidus, CJ Entertainment, Muhan Investment

Distributor: Neon, Palm Pictures, The Criterion Collection, Vivendi Entertainment

Country: South Korea

Language: Korean

Movie budget: $ 2,800,000

Domestic: $ 15,357

International: $ 1,189,484