Title: 4:30
Cast: Young-jun Kim and Xiao Li Yuan
Director: Royston Tan
Genre: Drama
Year: 2005
Runtime: 93 min
Movie Summary:
"4:30" traces the relationship between Xiao Wu, an eleven year old Chinese Boy and his tenant Jung, a thirty-something Korean man. Told entirely from the perspective of the boy, Xiao Wu, this story of two very different characters is less about friendship than about a shared experience and appreciation of solitude. "4:30" starts with Xiao sneaking to the room of Jung in the early hours of the morning, and stealing from the Korean man. Just as getting intoxicated is a habit for Jung, who only staggers back to his rented room when drunk, soon stealing for Xiao Wu becomes equally as compulsive. We soon realize that Jung's true intention for staying in Singapore is suicide. It is only through Xiao's encounter with Jung failing in his bid to die that he begins to understand his true fascination with Jung.
Tum, a young gay man escapes problems at home to meet friends and scope out potential loves. One night he spots the strikingly handsome Kaeng, and leaves with him, only to awaken alone in bed the next morning. Smitten, Tum seeks out Kaeng – but when he finds him, Kaeng has apparently moved on to a new conquest. Can the two men reconnect? And if they do, how will the specter of AIDS affect their relationship?
Title: Chub Chaser
Year: 2010
Director: Crisaldo Vicente Pablo
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Language: Tagalog
Movie Summary:
Chubi used to be stocky and sexy but today he has a forty inch waistline. He has not dated for four years now and he feels that it is time for him to try to fall in love again. When he agrees to meet up with a long lost old flame, he is humiliated because of his new extra large body. So Chubi decides to set aside his search for love and goes into sexy eyeballs through people he meets on the net.
The problem is he uses a fake photo to lure them into his lair. Most of the time, the victims, who are often disappointed when they personally meet Chubi, stay for quick sex and then leave him humiliated again and again. Until one final blow Chubi's ego brings him back to his senses, and finally, finds true love.
Title: Daybreak
Year: 2008
Runtime: 1hour 6mn
Country: Philippines
Genre: Romance
Director: Adolfo B. Alix, Jr.
Cast: Coco Martin, Paolo Rivero
Subtitles: Hardcoded English
Movie Summary:
Daybreak is a Filipino Indie Film about a married man who is having an affair with another man. After some time apart, twe two men spend a night together in a family vacation home in Taal, Batangas. Together in such close quarters, the two are left with nothing to do but to confront the realities of their relationship.
Title: The Masseur
Director: Brillante Mendoza
Language: Tagalog | Filipino
Cast:
Coco Martin as Iliac
Jacklyn Jose as Naty
Allan Paule as Alfredo / Marina Hidalgo
Katherine Luna as Tessa
Paolo Rivero as Andrew
Kristoffer King as Lester
Movie Summary:
Illiac (Coco Martin) is a handsome young lad who, because his alcoholic and carousing absentee father cannot support his family, has left his home to work as a masseur in Manila, assuming the financial responsibility of his family. Illiac works in a massage parlor - rooms like closets so close that conversations are easily heard - where he has his regular clients as well as newcomers, each of whom pays for massage an tips for all the 'extras' the boys are more than willing to offer for a price. The film moves back and forth between Illiac's home and his work in Manila and after his father dies, Illiac must return home and be the one who must assist the mortician in preparing his father's body for burial. This tradition becomes an analogy for the work Illiac performs on the massage table and the conversations and physical involvements between Illiac and client mirror the ministrations at the funeral parlor in a powerful and deeply moving way. Illiac is able to cope with both sides of his lot until he discovers some secrets left in his deceased father's belongings.
Director: Kenneth Bi
Producer: Rosa Li, Jackie Chan, Solon So, Willie Chan, Gary Hamilton
Writer: Kenneth Bi
Cast: Sylvia Chang, Martin Yan, Melanie Laurent, LePham Tan, Craig Toh, Alvin Chiang, Maggie Q, Ivy Ling Po, Ronald Bi
Subtitles: Hardcoded English
Movie Summary:
Kenneth Bi, son of the famous Chinese actress Ivy Ling Po, was born in Singapore and educated in the States. Having a reputation as Ang Lee the second, his Rice Rhapsody strikes a chord of resonance with Lee's successful films Eat Drink Man Woman (also starring Sylvia Chang) and The Wedding Banquet, in terms of stylistic elements as well as thematic concerns. Hainan (Hi-Nahn) Chicken Rice is one of the staples of Singaporean cuisine, a Chinese risotto sizzled in a pan and simmered in chicken stock, glistening with chicken essence and fragrant with ginger, every grain plump and separate yet chewy and bursting with juice. After being abandoned by her husband twelve years earlier, Jen (Sylvia Chang: "Eat Drink Man Woman", "The Red Violin". Best Actress of Hong Kong Film Awards 2002 - "Forever and Ever"), raised her three sons alone. She uses her mother's secret Hainan Chicken Rice recipe and opened a restaurant to support the family. Her two older sons, Daniel and Harry are gay. As a woman with traditional values, Jen is fretful that she would have no grandchildren, if Leo, too, turns out to be gay. Together she and her best friend, Kim Chui (Martin Yan: famous Chinese cuisine TV chef "Yan Can Cook") device a plan to keep Leo straight by bringing in a French exchange student to live with them. She is Leo's age and her name is Sabine. Leo develops a strange but intriguing relationship with her, which greatly pleases Jen. However, things begin to crumble for her again when Kim Chui becomes "the toast of the town" with his invention of a new dish deeply challenging her Chicken Rice. Kim Chui becomes a national celebrity overnight, and Jen's self-esteem is threatened. Finally, their conflicts come to a head when Jen participates in a cooking contest with Kim Chui and other chefs from Singapore. Food unexpectedly becomes a medium that not only nourishes their bodies but also opens their hearts...
Title: Bigasan
Director:Joven Tan
Cast : Gwen Garci, Carlos Morales, Joross Gamboa, Irma Adlawan
Runtime: 80 min
Country: Philippines
Language: Filipino | Tagalog
Certification:Philippines:R-18 (MTRCB)
This story is a struggling mediocrity that happens everyday in the lives of many Filipinos. People from this place lives one day at a time. Some were forced to steal just to sustain their daily needs, some aged woman would do anything just to meet both ends, and worst others would sell themselves to get a little money.
Title: Ang Laro ng Buhay ni Juan
Cast: Ray An Dulay, Angeli Bayani, Nico Antonio, Richard Quan
Director: Joselito Altarejos
Producer: Beyond the Box
Screenwriters: Joselito Altarejos, Peping Salonga, Lex Bonife
Genre: Drama
Location: Manila
Running Time: 100 mins.
Movie Summary:
Ang Laro ng Buhay ni Juan explores two hours in the life of Juan Reyes, known to others as Erwin. Juan is a 25 year old Masbate native who just found his way to Manila three years ago. Erwin has tried his hand at many odd jobs and now works as a live-sex performer at an underground gay bar but has decided to leave Manila for good.
Title: Happy Together
Country:Hong Kong
Language:Cantonese, Mandarin and Spanish
Subtitle: English (Hardsubbed)
Year:1997
Genre:Comedy, Drama, Romance
Cast:Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Leslie Cheung, Chang Chen
Synopsis
Yiu-Fai and Po-Wing arrive in Argentina from Hong Kong and take to the road for a holiday. Something is wrong and their relationship goes adrift. A disillusioned Yiu-Fai starts working at a tango bar to save up for his trip home. When a beaten and bruised Po-Wing reappears, Yiu-Fai is empathetic but is unable to enter a more intimate relationship. After all, Po-Wing is not ready to settle down. Yiu-Fai now works in a Chinese restaurant and meets the youthful Chang from Taiwan. Yiu-Fai’s life takes on a new spin, while Po-Wing’s life shatters continually in contrast...
