Stanley Kwan
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Stanley Kwan is a Hong Kong Second Wave
Hong Kong Second Wave
Hong Kong Second Wave is a term used by film critics to describe a group of Hong Kong film directors in late 1980s to 1990s. The most notable directors belong to Hong Kong Second Wave includes Wong Kar-wai, Fruit Chan, Stanley Kwan, Clara Law, Peter Chan and Evans Chan....

 film director
Film director
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 and producer
Film producer
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.

Kwan landed a job at the TVB after receiving a mass communications degree at Hong Kong Baptist College
Hong Kong Baptist University
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. Kwan's first film was Women (1985), which starred Chow Yun-fat
Chow Yun-Fat
Chow Yun-fat, SBS is an actor from Hong Kong. He is best known in Asia for his collaboration with filmmaker John Woo in heroic bloodshed genre films A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, and Hard Boiled; and to the West for his role as Li Mu-bai in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon...

, and was a big box-office success.

Kwan's films often deal sympathetically with the plight of women and their struggles with romantic affairs of the heart. Rouge (1987), Full Moon in New York (1989), Centre Stage (1992; aka Actress), a biopic on silent film
Silent film
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 star Ruan Lingyu
Ruan Lingyu
Ruan Lingyu , born Ruan Fenggen , was a Chinese silent film actress. One of the most prominent Chinese film stars of the 1930s, her death at the age of 24 led her to become an icon of Chinese cinema.- Career :...

 and Everlasting Regret
Everlasting Regret
Everlasting Regret is a 2005 Hong Kong film directed by Stanley Kwan, and produced by Jackie Chan. It is based on Changhen Ge, a novel by Wang Anyi, about a woman's turbulent life in 20th century Shanghai, China...

(2005), are all such typical Kwan films. Red Rose White Rose (1994) is an adaptation of an Eileen Chang
Eileen Chang
Eileen Chang was a Chinese writer. Her most famous works include Lust, Caution and Love in a Fallen City....

 novel.

Kwan came out
Coming out
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 as a gay
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 man in 1996 in Yang ± Yin, his documentary looking at the history of Chinese-language film through the prism of gender roles and sexuality. He is one of the few openly gay directors in Asia
Asia
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 and one of the very few to have worked on these themes. His Lan Yu (film) (2001) adapts a gay love story originally published on the Internet.

Filmography

  • Women (1985)
  • Love Unto Waste (1986)
  • Rouge (1987)
  • Full Moon in New York (1989)
  • Too Happy for Words (1992)
  • Centre Stage
    Centre Stage
    Centre Stage , also known as Actress and Yuen Ling-yuk, is a 1992 Hong Kong film, directed by Stanley Kwan.The film is based on a true story: the tragic life of China's first prima donna of the silver screen, Ruan Lingyu. This movie chronicles her rise to fame as a movie actress in Shanghai during...

    , aka The New China Woman or Actress (1992)
  • Red Rose White Rose (1994)
  • Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema (1996)
  • Hold You Tight
    Hold You Tight
    Hold You Tight is a multi-award-winning 1998 Hong Kong romantic drama film directed by Stanley Kwan....

    (1997) (Teddy Award
    Teddy Award
    The Teddy Award is an international film award for films with LGBT topics, presented by an independent jury as an official award of the Berlin International Film Festival . Here, an "independent jury" implies that its members are not officially selected by the committee of the Berlinale...

     in 1998)
  • Still Love You After All These (1997)
  • The Island Tales (1999)
  • Lan Yu (2001)
  • Everlasting Regret
    Everlasting Regret
    Everlasting Regret is a 2005 Hong Kong film directed by Stanley Kwan, and produced by Jackie Chan. It is based on Changhen Ge, a novel by Wang Anyi, about a woman's turbulent life in 20th century Shanghai, China...

    (2005)


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