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Lan Yu

Country: China, Language: Chinese, 86 mins

  • Director: Stanley Kwan
  • Writer: Jimmy Ngai
  • Producer: Qin Jian; Yongning Zhang

CGiii Comment

Grim. Dark. Dull...

A hustler (who really is a good kid, yawn) has a relationship with a client (who gets married, yawn) and the rest is predictable hogswash.

Yes, it is Chinese and yes...it probably was groundbreaking (in China), but...

It's just another bitter hustler story offering nothing but drudgery.

Truly dismal - in every respect.


Trailer...

LAN YU (藍宇, Stanley Kwan, 2001) from Spectacle on Vimeo.

The(ir) Blurb...

Beijing, 1988. On the cusp of middle-age, Chen Handong has known little but success all his life. The eldest son of a senior government bureaucrat, he heads a fast-growing trading company and plays as hard as he works. Few know that Handong's tastes run more to boys than girls. Lan Yu is a country boy, newly arrived in Beijing to study architecture. More than most students, he is short of money and willing to try anything to earn some. He has run into Liu Zheng, who pragmatically suggests that he could prostitute himself for one night to a gay pool-hall and bar owner. But Handong happens to be in the pool hall that evening, and he nixes the deal. He takes Lan Yu home himself and gives the young man what turns out to be a life-changing sexual initiation. Handong and Lan Yu meet often, and the boy is soon very secure in his love for the man. But Handong insists that he wants a play-mate, not a lifelong companion, and warns Lan Yu that they will eventually break up.

Cast & Characters

Ye Liu as Lan Yu;
Jun Hu as Chen Handong;
Bin Li; Huatong Li as Liu Zheng;
Shuang Li as Weidong;
Fang Lu as Yonghong;
Jin Su as Lin Jingping;
Shaohua Zhang as Niu Ma;
Yongning Zhang as Daning