Bishonen (1998)
Jet is a gay hustler who one night spots a young man walking with a woman, and falls for him instantly. He does some research, and discovers that the man is called Sam, and is an apparently straight policeman.
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Hong kong films are mostly action packed, comedies, etc. I have never seen any hong kong films like this one before, this one is romantic, touching, a little bit of disconsolate.I thought that Stephen Fung looks cute, so I wanted to watch this film. In the end, I start to like Daniel Wu better, he looks a little bit like andy lau, and he is shanghai boy.The story is intertwined with each protagonists, and the love they have for each other is pure. The sex scenes are quite steamy, I doubt that they will make any gay films like this one in hong kong any more. The actors are really good, you would feel as if they are really homosexuals in real life.I rate this a total 10. I feel that there won't be another film like this made in Hong Kong any more.
This Gay movie is not really good so I won't suggest any of you to watch it. The story seems lost and the plot is too blur to be understood you can get confused somehow if you don't really focus on this movie, however the actors already tried their best to do their best in this movie. I heard from my sister that the story is based from Japanese yaoi manga, but still why I think that the manga may be better than the movie. I watched this movie just because I was curious at Daniel and Stephen acted together as a gay couple and they looked younger compare to now and their acting skill is not as good as now. Again the ending is quite disappointment but they follow the original story so it's OK even though I really don't like it.If you curious of this movie you can try to look a fan made music video of "Bishonen" in youtube.com.
Straight model actors are certainly far removed from the typical gay man. I found as did many the actors to be beautiful, but that was the main attraction for the film. I found the substance of the film to be disappointing. Any character who was not beautiful was generally portrayed as one who prayed on those who were. A gay film that represents the diversity of gay people would have been much more to my liking.
Daniel Wu's performance is brilliant. It is hard to believe that this is only his first movie role. He seems to have everything to become the next Keanu Reeves. I predict that a "star was born" in San Francisco in 1974.