Gay Asian Movies - "No Way Out", Directed by Joel Lamangan

Joaquin, an unassuming fisherman, is forced to confront his homosexuality when his sex-starved wife returns from her overseas job eager to get pregnant. His young and impulsive lover, Waldo flees to Manila in disgust.
After a month of hesitation, Joaquin leaves his wife to follow Waldo. His search takes him on a seamy yet colorful trip through Manila's gay underbelly. He discovers Waldo's dangerous flirtation with Rufo, a bisexual rogue cop who holds the clue to Waldo's disappearance. Rufo lures Joaquin into his home and introduces him to his submissive wife, Beng.
A sadist who beats up Beng regularly, Rufo turns Joaquin into a prisoner and sex slave -- like he did to Waldo. When Joaquin is finally reunited with Waldo, he discovers that Rufo is about to sell them like fish to an international sex trafficking ring, along with his personal harem of male and female captives. With Beng's help, the two lovers plot their escape.

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Gay Asian Movies - End of Love, Directed by Simon Chung

Writer-director Simon Chung, whose film Innocence put him among the leaders of Queer Asian Cinema, raises the bar once again with this extraordinary tale of sexual obsession, unrequited love and psychological isolation--evoking imagery and themes from such gay classics as Brokeback Mountain and Boys Love that are equal parts sensual, eloquent and heartrending while creating a mood and sensibility all its own.

Boyishly cute Ming (Chi-Kin Lee) is a 22-year-old Hong Kong male prostitute whose party-boy ways land him in a Christian reformatory camp. As the story unfolds recalling his relationship with his boyfriend and his ex-roommate--sharing both drugs and "clients" with the latter--Ming falls for Keung (Guthrie Yip), a handsome, former drug addict who has been assigned as his sponsor. When Ming and Keung each return to the outside world, they face an uncertain future both sexually and emotionally--and will need to rely on each other to weather any storm on the horizon.

A hit at film festivals around the world, End of Love abandons the usual themes of identity and coming out which are often characteristic of gay Asian cinema and presents a mature, involving and quite entertaining look at what it s like to be young and gay in modern-day Hong Kong.

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