Stanley Kwan
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Stanley Kwan (關錦鵬) (born October 9, 1957) is a Hong Kong film director and producer.
Kwan was born in Hong Kong, and he landed a job at the TVB after receiving a mass communications degree at Hong Kong Baptist College. Kwan's first film was Women (1985), which starred Chow Yun-Fat, and was a big box-office success.
Kwan's films frequently deal sympathetically with the plight of women and their struggles with affairs of the heart. Rouge (1987), Full Moon in New York (1989), and Centre Stage (1992; aka Actress), a biopic on silent film star Ruan Lingyu, are all such typical Kwan films. Red Rose White Rose (1994) is an adaptation of an Eileen Chang novel.
Kwan came out as a gay 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 and one of the few to work on these themes. Lan Yu (2001) continues in this vein, adapting a gay love story originally published on the Internet.
Filmography as director includes
- Lan Yu (2001)
- The Island Tales (1999)
- Hold You Tight (1997)
- Still Love You After All These (1997)
- Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema (1996)
- Red Rose White Rose (1994)
- Too Happy for Words (1992)
- Centre Stage, aka The New China Woman or Actress (1992)
- Full Moon in New York (1989)
- Rouge (1987)
- Love Unto Waist (1986)
- Women (1985)
See also
External link
- IMDB entry (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0477102/)