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- DirectorLee Joon-ikStarsKam Woo-seongJung Jin-youngKang Seong-yeonTwo clowns living in Korea's Chosun Dynasty get arrested for staging a play that satirizes the king. They are dragged to the palace and threatened with execution but are given a chance to save their lives if they can make the king laugh.
- DirectorLeste ChenStarsHsiao-chuan ChangRay ChangKate YeungTwo best friends Shane and Jonathan learn more about themselves in an ever evolving sexuality.
- DirectorHee-il LeesongStarsKim Nam-gilLee Young-hoonHyeon-cheol JoSumin is an orphan trying to balance work in a factory with study at an art college and an evening job. One night, a rich young businessman makes an advance on him during one of his driving jobs.
- DirectorScudStarsOsman HungLinda SoHaze LeungLove is life, life as it is. Not every love story is a fairy tale. After a dramatic wedding feast, unusual love stories unfold towards unexpected endings. Inspired by real life cases, the film is about love that gone bad: a brother and sister in love but caught by the mother, a married painter falls for his young life drawing model of same sex, an intimacy between a dance school teacher and his rich but senior student, a lesbian couple one of which has role-play paranoid, a dreadful love triangle ending with the girl being beheaded..."Love Actually...Sucks!" celebrates love that no one care but actual. Life is love, love as it is.
- DirectorHung-i ChenStarsJosephine A. BlanksteinCheer ChenYang-kun ChenFour separate vignettes about lesbian relationships and dating, ending with a summation about relationships.
- DirectorHsiao-tse ChengStarsChia-Yen KoSandrine PinnaWing FanThe bisexual owner of a record store and a new girl in town bond over Jack Kerouac. Meanwhile, a girl in her class falls in love with her.
- DirectorYan-Yan MakStarsJosie HoEric KotYuan TianA married teacher/closeted lesbian meets a young, free spirited singer who will allow her to rediscover herself.
- DirectorChih-yen YeeStarsGwei Lun-MeiChen Bo-linYolin LiangAn is-she-or-isn't-she gay comedy focused on a Taiwanese teen, the boy she might like, and the girl she may love.
- DirectorSijie DaiStarsMylène JampanoïXiaoran LiDong Fu LinAt the house of a famous Chinese botanist teacher his daughter and a female intern fall in love with each other - a forbidden love that must be kept secret.
- DirectorYin-jung ChenStarsYo YangDuncan LaiKing ChinA gay teenager falls for an architect after moving to the city to find a summer job.
- DirectorSarasawadee WongsompetchStarsSushar ManayingSupanart JittaleelaArisara ThongborisutPie is a sweet girl who moves into a new college dorm room where she finds out that her new roommate Kim, is a tomboy who looks and dress like a boy. As their friendship develops, Pie and Kim begin to wonder if the feeling they feel for one another is just an ordinary friendship or true love.
- DirectorKôji KawanoStarsRei YoshiiAsami ImajukuNaomi AkimotoIchiko and Eri are two Japanese university students who are in a lesbian relationship. Ichiko comes out to her father who tells her he is also gay and her mother was a lesbian. Her best friend is gay too, though he has a female who is after him. Their liaison is very intense, but Eri suggests a temporary separation so she can concentrate on her law studies. The break from their affair is difficult for Ichiko to deal with. But Eri soon sorts out her priorities.
- DirectorYoshihiro FukagawaStarsEma FujisawaMegumi HarunoMakoto KawaharaJun, the ace in his swimming team, lost against his rival, Naoki, at the summer college tournament. But since then there is a special feeling between them..
- DirectorKôtarô TerauchiStarsYoshikazu KotaniTakumi SaitôHiroya MatsumotoBoys Love, the first film released in 2006, tells the story of Taishin Mamiya, a magazine editor who meets and interviews a young model, Noeru Kisaragi, and becomes attracted to him. Their love, however, is forbidden. The tagline of the movie is "All we did was love each other, but...our love is forbidden.
- DirectorRyosuke HashiguchiStarsYoshihiko HakamadaReiko KataokaMasashi EndôThe story of two young hustlers, Tatsuro and Shin, and her two female friends. Everything seems to work, until the day Shin declares he's in love with Tatsuro.
- DirectorYa-che YangStarsGwei Lun-MeiHsiao-chuan ChangRhydian VaughanWhen three rebellious students leave their hometown to pursue their lifelong dreams in the big city, their relationships start to face the pressures of real life as the 1980s Taiwanese socio-political reformation movement unfolds in the background.
- DirectorChi-Yuarn LeeStarsAmiya LeeYi-Chiao LiaoAngel Yao
- DirectorRoyston TanStarsMelvin ChenErick ChunMelvin LeeFast, frenetic, and furious, 15 is story of five Singaporian teenagers who, abandoned by system.
- DirectorZero ChouStarsRainie YangIsabella LeongKris ShenWhen web-cam girl Jade visits Takeko's tattoo studio, she becomes entranced with the image of the spider lily--and with Takeko. In order to get closer to the object of her desire, Jade asks Takeko to give her the same lily tattoo, challenging Takeko's monastic existence and opening up memories which threaten to tear the two women apart.
- DirectorHiroyuki OkiStarsChanoKazunori ShibuyaHisanori KitakazeShin and Yu's relationship is tested after Yu admits to confessing his love to another man.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsTakeshi KitanoRyûhei MatsudaShinji TakedaThe new member of a samurai militia unit causes disruption as several of his colleagues fall in love with him, threatening to disturb the rigid code of their squad.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsRyûhei MatsudaMasanobu AndôShunsuke KubozukaA visually stylish tale of two male prisoners bonded by emotion, love and murder.
- DirectorAkira OgataStarsAtsushi ItôSora TômaTeruyuki KagawaThe lives of two orphan boys begin to intertwine when the choir and the feelings they share bring them closer to one another.
- DirectorKei HorieStarsTakumi SaitôRyûnosuke KawaiYutsuki KatoAfter Noboru saves Hayase from drowning by giving him mouth-to-mouth, Hayase grows confused about his feelings. It doesn't help that around the same time he meets Noboru's twin brother Ryu who has a very different, outgoing personality.
- DirectorKim Dae-seungStarsLee Byung-hunEun-ju LeeYeo Hyeon-sooTwo soulmates find each other only to be torn apart by tragedy. However, not even death can keep them apart...but can destiny?
- DirectorYun-ho YangStarsKim Kang-wooKim Gyu-riSu-kyeong LeeOfficers Kyung-yoon CHO and Eun-joo PARK are on the hunt a killer following duo of ghastly murders. The victims carry a common military past, and the secret of their past must be unraveled to find the killer.
- DirectorHyoe YamamotoStarsAyaka MaedaNahanaKyoko is an aspiring writer whose artistic vision is yet to be formed. When her girlfriend Rie asks her to move in with her, Kyoko begins to wonder about their uncertain future as a lesbian couple in Tokyo.
- DirectorRyosuke HashiguchiStarsReiko KataokaKazuya TakahashiSeiichi TanabeSoon after the disparate yet compatible Naoya and Katsuhiro start to settle into a relationship, a slightly unhinged young woman named Asako asks Katsuhiro to father her child.
- DirectorKar-Wai WongStarsLeslie CheungTony Leung Chiu-waiChang ChenA couple take a trip to Argentina but both men find their lives drifting apart in opposite directions.
- DirectorSatoshi KanedaStarsHidenori TokuyamaYasuka SaitoRinako MatsuokaOotani and Tachibana have been inseparable since high school. Now that they're in college, they live together, they're happy and everything seems prefect. 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?
- DirectorSatoshi KanedaStarsShôta TakasakiYûsuke AraiAkihiro HayashiYuki Morimura is by all accounts a disappointment. The only thing the substitute teacher has going for him is that he is the concertmaster of an amateur orchestra. To the shock of the Orchestra, music prodigy Kei Tonoin has been recruited to be their first true conductor. Kei graduated from a prestigious music university abroad and his arrogant totalitarian attitude drives Yuki crazy. Worse, he threatens the potential relationship Yuki seeks with a girl from the Orchestra. In abrupt anger, Yuki abandons the group in the middle of rehearsal. Kei does not take this lightly as he has long been secretly lusting over Yuki. That night, Kei's rage and passion combine to change Yuki's life forever. In a battle for dominance, neither man is willing to admit their faults or face the truth, building to one shocking ending.
- DirectorYonfanStarsStephen FungDaniel WuShu QiThe emotional travails of a handsome gigolo and a hunky cop, who are trying to come to terms with their sexuality.
- DirectorHee-il LeesongStarsHyun-sung KimTae-hee WonLee Yi-kyeongFlight attendant Won-Gyu left Korea 2 years ago with painful memories and now comes back. Won-Gyu meets Tae-Joon, who is a quick service delivery man and has a special night with him.
- DirectorKi-hyeong ParkStarsKim Gyu-riYun Ji-hyePark Jin-heeIn a Korean school, students are regularly beaten and mistreated by their teachers. However, the spirit of one pupil, who died ten years ago, periodically returns in the guise of a new girl, thus able to gain a revenge on the culprits.The entire Whispering Corridors franchise has plenty of lesbian overtones but for there is nothing too overt.
- DirectorKyu-dong MinKim Tae-yongStarsKim Gyu-riPark YejinLee Yeong-jinIn this second installment of the Whispering Corridors series, a young girl finds a strange diary, capable of arousing hallucinations, kept by two of her senior fellow-students who seem to have an unusually close bond.
- DirectorJae-yeon YunStarsSong Ji-hyoPark Han-byeolJo AnA staircase leading to the dormitory of a remote boarding school usually has 28 stairs, but every so often there appears to be 29. When someone steps on the mysterious extra stair, the horror begins.
- DirectorLee Hae-junLee Hae-youngStarsBaek Yun-shikLee Sang-ahEon LeeOH Dong-gu believes himself to be female. Although overweight and on the short side, he dreams of becoming perfect some day, and devotes himself to mimicking Madonna's singing and dancing after school. To cover the costs of transsexual surgery, he decides to enter a wrestling competition.
- DirectorAlice WuStarsJoan ChenMichelle KrusiecLynn ChenA gay Chinese-American and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations.
- DirectorOxide Chun PangStarsRace WongRosanne WongAnson LeungJiney, an artist, witnesses a car crash. She photographs the victim, becoming obsessed with death. She receives a snuff video. Her friend Jas realizes it's real. Jiney gets another disturbing tape, leaving her terrified.
- DirectorKyu-dong MinStarsJu Ji-hoonKim Jae-WookYoo Ah-inJin-hyeok opens a cake shop in an old antique shop, hiring Seon-woo, Korea's best pastry chef, who fell in love with him in high school. Also there, are Su-young, crushing on Seon-woo, ex-boxer Ki-beom, and Seon-woo's French ex-boyfriend.
- DirectorShûsuke KanekoStarsMio OhtaniRumi HanaiNaomi AkimotoA film about adolescent girls who are amorous yet poisonous with a painful sting just like jellyfish, and their days which are fragile and cruel with warm love and jealousy.
- DirectorSarasawadee WongsompetchStarsNisa BoonsantearSupanart JittaleelaApittha KhlaiudomA sequel of a popular Thai film with a lesbian theme, Yes or No 2 picks up from where the original left off. Two girls, Kim and Pie are in love, but after graduation they have to travel into two different directions for their internship; Kim is going to work in a farm in the northern province of Nan, while Pie is going South to work in a fishery center. Their love is being tested by the distance.
- DirectorShin Jae MyungKim Su-Jin-IHa YooStarsZo In-sungJu Jin-moSong Ji-hyoA historical drama set in the Koryo dynasty and focused on the relationship between a king and his bodyguard.
- DirectorZero ChouStarsSerena FangChih-Ying PaiYi-lan ChaoTeddy Award-winning Director Zero Chou (Spider Lilies) weaves three poetic tales as the lesbians in Drifting Flowers seek their true identify. In the first story, Jing, a blind singer, falls in love with her band's tomboy accordionist Diego. In another time and place, Lily, an elderly lesbian and Yen, her gay friend, create an unexpected bond and support each other in a time of crisis. Finally, we see Diego before she joined the band, when as a teenager she came to grips with her gender identity.
- DirectorScudStarsSean LiOsman HungJackie ChowThe life story of a young man who has been pursuing an impossible love with his straight boyfriend and contemplating on the mortality of his loved ones.
- DirectorJoon-moon SoStarsJo Hye-hunSong Sam-dongOn their 5th anniversary, a gay couple films themselves in a motel, re-affirming their love. As the day goes on, hints emerge that this may be the couple's final day together.
- DirectorHee-il LeesongStarsHan Joo-wanKim Young-jaeSang-woo knows his teacher's secret: a visit to a gay bar. Kyeong-hoon and Sang-woo embark on a journey about their sexuality and their relationship and their place in society.
- DirectorHyun-Jin ParkStarsDong-gyu LeeDae-suk OhA secret relationship between two Korean government employees is complicated by the difference in the men's ranks.
- DirectorAi GuchiStarsWataru HatanoTokuyoshi KawashimaHikaru MidorikawaChisato is parenting the teenage boy Riju and is secretly in love with him. Trouble occurs when Chisato gets jealous, due to Riju's friends constantly coming over.
- DirectorKazuhiro YokoyamaStarsTomo YanagishitaKeisuke KatoYasuka SaitoA 2nd year student is assigned a handsome new roommate at the start of the school year.
- DirectorTakeshi YokoiStarsKyosuke HamaoDaisuke WatanabeYukihiro TakiguchiTakumi and Gii are now a couple, but Takumi is still uncomfortable with showing affection. Not only that, but Takumi grows jealous when Gii starts paying attention to a good-looking first year student. Is Gii's love really that fickle?
- DirectorTakeshi YokoiStarsKyosuke HamaoDaisuke WatanabeYukihiro TakiguchiAnother school year is starting. Upon meeting up with Gii, Takumi is worried when it turns out Gii has changed, suddenly acting cold and distant. Could their relationship be in danger for real this time?
- DirectorTakeshi YokoiStarsRyôma BabaTaiki NaitoYukihiro TakiguchiTakumi's and Gii's friends and their relationship troubles.
- DirectorTakeshi YokoiStarsKyosuke HamaoDaisuke WatanabeYukihiro TakiguchiGii and Takumi are trying to get thought this school year, without being seen together and it still hurts, but takumi's "human" phobia is still better. It's close to the day of his older brother's death and Gii wants to go with him to his grave. The day of his brothers death are the school tournaments are going on too, and Gii is participating and is favored to win. At hearing this Takumi is heart broken because Gii can only do one, or can he do both? This fifth movie is possibly the best but that's up for you to decide. Me I know i want their to be many more, b ut I could live with just these five.
- DirectorTakehiro NakajimaStarsMisa ShimizuTakehiro MurataTakeo NakaharaSayoko, 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 Goh falls for a new man, Kurihara. Sayoko tries to entice Kurihara to meet Goh, but he is not really gay. Kurihara seduces and abuses Sayoko, leaving her with child.
- DirectorHisayasu SatôStarsKiyomi ItôTakeshi ItôJuneRyuzaki, an editor of Muscle Magazine, which features photographs of men with sculpted bodies, becomes involved with a man named Kitami; their affair soon becomes dominated by sadomasochistic games, with a horrid result. Jump ahead one year, Ryuzaki is released from jail and goes in search of Kitami, perhaps to make amends. The films of Pasolini, especially "Salò," dominate Ryuzaki's imagination; he works sometimes at the Lunatic Theatre, which shows films about rough trade; and, he becomes involved with a couple into S & M. Will Ryuzaki find Kitami, and what will happen if he does?
- DirectorKankurô KudôStarsTomoya NagaseShichinosuke NakamuraSadao AbeYaji and Kita are two men who live in Edo. They are deeply in love. Yaji is married to a woman, while Kita is an actor addicted to various drugs.
- DirectorThunska PansittivorakulStarsPradit PradinanSathit SobreeIt doesn't look spectacular at first. Two boys each talk separately about their experiences. In the end also on the sexual level. In the end they are also in the room together. In the end they don't leave it at talking.
- DirectorThunska PansittivorakulStarsBaramee JarinyatornWaranyoo SuwanNophand BoonyaiIn the future, an unseen leader transforms Thailand into a strange world where humans are forbidden from touching. Part political essay, part erotic gay drama,.
- DirectorSatoshi KanedaStarsRakuto TochiharaYûta TakahashiMitsuyoshi ShinodaThrough a coincidence Tozaki runs into Kurata, his first crush from high school. They begin a relationship, but Kurata's jealousy starts causing problems.
- DirectorChookiat SakveerakulStarsNattapong ArunnateJarunee BoonsakeSupoj ChancharoenSet in Chiang Mai, the film consists of three continuous segments, each focusing on a group of characters whose relationships are revealed in the third segment. In the first segment, recent secondary school graduate Nay (Chutavuth Pattarakampol) is taking photographs of his school campus at night when he meets a younger student acquaintance, Beam (Kittisak Patomburana). The two talk about their experiences, relationships and plans for the future, but have to part as morning comes. The second segment tells the story of widow Buajan (Penpak Sirikul), who continues to find notes left by her late husband (Witoon Jaiprom), which keep her bonded to his memory but also prevents her from moving on. The last segment centres on the wedding of Chiang Mai native Preeya (Siraphan Wattanajinda) and Leng (Ruangsak Loychusak), a businessman from Phuket. Problems arise on the wedding day after Preeya has an encounter with her ex-boyfriend Pek (Supoj Chancharoen), although she is supported by her aunt (Puttachat Pongsuchat) and brother (Witwisit Hiranyawongkul).
- DirectorHyuk-Sang LeeStarsChang Byoung-GwonYoung-Soo ChoiSo Jun-MoonA story about 4 gay men who try to lead a normal life in Korea, the conservative and harsh country for LGBT in Asia. In the middle of making a queer film Jun-moon, a director, loses his self-confidence due to social scrutiny regarding his sexual orientation. Byung-gwon, a gay rights activist, has been participating in movements to establish equal rights for homosexual laborers. Young-soo, a chef who moved from the countryside 15 years ago, lived a lonely life but he finds happiness after joining a gay choir. Yol, who works for a major company, dreams of the day him and his partner, can have a legal wedding with overcoming the prejudice against people living with HIV/AIDS.
- DirectorAaron KimStarsJo AnOh Min-seokRyu Sang-wookHo-jeong finds out her boyfriend has fallen in love with a man while studying abroad. She demands one month of dating to win him back.
- DirectorJoji MatsuokaStarsHiroko YakushimaruEtsushi ToyokawaMichitaka TsutsuiShoko and Mutsuki get married to satisfy their worried parents, but she is well past the age at which a 'good' Japanese woman should marry, and he is in love with a young male college student. The film is less a realistic exploration of gay life than a fairy tale of three young Japanese trying to construct an alternative to the sexual and familial roles given to them by a society turning increasingly emotionally barren.L.
- DirectorShoji KubotaStarsRyôma BabaBengalRyûnosuke Kawai
- DirectorIn-shik KimStarsHwang Jung-minJung ChanRin SeoSuk-won, a trader who loses all of his money (and his wife) in a market downturn is left homeless until Dae-shik, a homeless loner, rescues him. Together the two travel across the country and Dae-shik falls in love with Suk-won. Joining them in their journey is Il-joo, a wacky hooker who falls in love with Dae-shik.
- DirectorHôjin HashiuraStarsYoichi MiuraKazuhito TakeiAkoHot-rodder leader, and his girlfriend, and his only friend. They lead decadent life.
- DirectorYumi YoshiyukiStarsNaoyuki ChibaUkyo FushimiTomohiro OkadaIt's Gacchan's birthday, but he has forgotten his boyfriend is holding the party. A real-life Manga adventure follows two cute Japanese boys who discover what a single night in Shinjuku holds for unwary lovers.
- DirectorKôichi ImaizumiStarsHiroshi MurakamiTeppen MatsunokiRyôya KawashimaA story about coming of age, coming out and a gay marriage that is sprinkled with both love and comedy, at the centre of which is a teenager who doesn't yet know what he wants.
- DirectorYumi YoshiyukiStarsMikio SatôTomohiro OkadaHirotaka MiyamaA sweet, romantic comedy involving four gay guys in Tokyo. Tadashi is a confused gay Japanese teenager at an all-boys school who fantasizes about his best friend, Kota. Hiroki and Shiji are a young, gay couple living in Tokyo. When Tadashi sees the couple being openly affectionate on the train one day, he decides to follow them. From this strange beginning, the guys decide to help Tadashi deal with the stress of coming out.
- DirectorMitsuhiro MiharaStarsTakumi SaitôHiroki AibaStory about two boys, a girl and an unusual love triangle.
- DirectorJho Kwang-soo KimStarsLee Chae-eunLee Je-HoonGo Su-heeExpecting a cozy night outside of the barracks, Seok visits his boyfriend Min-soo who is serving in the military. However when Min-soo's mother questions their relationship, the only answer they can give is that they are 'just friends'.
- DirectorJho Kwang-soo KimStarsDong-Yoon KimRyu Hyun-kyungJeong Ae-yeonTo keep their sexual orientation a secret, a gay man and a lesbian woman gets married. Now they have to juggle their identities to fool parents and co-workers, all while trying to find real love.
- DirectorHiroshi AndoStarsMikako IchikawaManami KonishiAsami ImajukuAn introverted schoolgirl falls in love and starts a relationship with one of her classmates. Set in a small seaside town in Japan, the love of her life eventually leaves her for her boyfriend in Tokyo.
- DirectorRyosuke HashiguchiStarsYoshinori OkadaAyumi HamasakiKouji YamaguchiThe movie is built around the very complex relationships between Yoshida, leaving Shimizu for Aihara (or at least he tries to), and his friend Ito, whose love for Yoshida seems to have little chance for success. In the end we have a coalition of Ito and Aihara - who may or may not be in love with Ito - teaching Yoshida a lesson.
- DirectorChihiro AmanoStarsShôichi MatsudaYuya MitoMasashi TaniguchiToshiaki is a young gay man. On the first day of work, he meets Yosuke in the elevator. Yosuke is Toshiaki's new boss. Toshiaki is attracted to Yosuke. Toshiaki can't be honest with his feelings about it due to a traumatic incident from his past.
- DirectorYûichi OnumaStarsAoi MorikawaMugi KadowakiMaaya KondôAt an all female high school, a senior of the radio club becomes fascinated with the club's newest member. As graduation nears and the summer heat rises, so does the sexual tension between the girls.