TV Standard: NTSC
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio(s): 16:9 Vista
Layers: single-sided/single-layered

Credits:

Hu Jun,リウ・イエ,Su Jin

Description:

It's beautiful, even impatiently so. A masterpiece that swept Asian film awards and was banned in China. Now, in celebration of the 20th anniversary of its screening in Japan, it has been revived in 4K remastering! Set against the turbulent backdrop of the Tiananmen Square incident in Beijing, the film tells the story of "forbidden love" between a young businessman and a naive student. This is a film adaptation of the gay novel "The Beijing Story," which was published on the Internet and became a hot topic at the time. The novel was sensationalized for its enthusiastic following and for expressing freedom and a new form of love in the midst of China's tumultuous democratization. The film has a passionate fan base in Japan as a legendary BL movie. Although the film was not officially allowed to be screened in China, it was nominated for the Cannes Film Festival's "Un Certain Regard" section in 2001. The film was subsequently screened in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and was nominated for 10 awards at the 21st Hong Kong Film Awards, and won five major awards at the 38th Taiwan Golden Horse Awards, including Best Director, Best Actor, Best Screenplay, Best Editing, and Best Audience Award, dominating the awards race in Asia. This film became the masterpiece of Stanley Kwan, who was an up-and-coming director. The director himself is an avowed gay man, and his careful and realistic direction of this film was truly brilliant.In Taiwan, in particular, the film attracted attention even before its release even though it was an independent film, received numerous awards at film festivals, and caused a social phenomenon in which the existence of sexual minorities, who until then had no civil rights, was rapidly recognized. He became one of the directors representing the second generation of the Hong Kong New Wave. In 1999, he established a new label, Y2K, with Japanese director Shunji Iwai and Taiwanese director Edward Yang, and directed "The Foreigners" (2000).