Stanley Kwan
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Stanley Kwan (Traditional Chinese: 關錦鵬; Simplified Chinese: 关锦鹏; pinyin: Guān Jǐnpéng; 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), Centre Stage (1992; aka Actress), a biopic on silent film star Ruan Lingyu and Everlasting Regret (2005), are 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 very few to have worked on these themes. His Lan Yu (2001) adapts a gay love story originally published on the Internet.
[edit] Filmography as director includes
- Women (1985)
- Love Unto Waste (1986)
- Rouge (1987)
- Full Moon in New York (1989)
- Too Happy for Words (1992)
- Centre Stage, aka The New China Woman or Actress (1992)
- Red Rose White Rose (1994)
- Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema (1996)
- Hold You Tight (1997)
- Still Love You After All These (1997)
- The Island Tales (1999)
- Lan Yu (2001)
- Everlasting Regret (2005)
