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Stanley Kwan is a Actor, Director, Producer, Assistant Director and Thanks Hongkongais born on 9 october 1957 at Hong Kong (Chine)
Stanley Kwan (simplified Chinese: 关锦鹏; traditional Chinese: 關錦鵬; born October 9, 1957 in Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong Second Wave Hong Kong film director and producer.
Kwan 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 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 star Ruan Lingyu and Everlasting Regret (2005), are all such typical Kwan films. Red Rose White Rose (1994) is an adaptation of an Eileen Chang novel. The film was entered into the 45th Berlin International Film Festival. His 1998 film Hold You Tight won the Alfred Bauer Prize and Teddy Award at the 48th Berlin International Film Festival.
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.
Les films de Kwan tournent souvent autour de femmes en situations difficiles, et de leurs problèmes de cœur. Rouge (1987), Full Moon in New York (1989), Center Stage (1992) et Everlasting Regret (2005), sont ainsi des films typiques de Stanley Kwan. Red Rose White Rose (1994) est une adaptation d'un roman de Eileen Chang.
Kwan fit son coming out en 1996 en réalisant Yang ± Yin, un documentaire sur les films de langue chinoise, vus à travers les rôles de genre et de la sexualité. Il est l'un des quelques réalisateurs ouvertement gays d'Asie, et l'un des très rares à avoir travaillé sur ce sujet. Son film Histoire d'hommes à Pékin (2001) est une adaptation d'une histoire d'amour gay initialement publiée sur Internet.
En novembre 2018 il fait partie du jury du 31e Festival de Tokyo, présidé par Brillante Mendoza.
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Stanley Kwan
Nationality Hong kong
Birth 9 october 1957 (66 years) at Hong Kong (Chine)
Awards Hong Kong Film Award for Best Director
Birth 9 october 1957 (66 years) at Hong Kong (Chine)
Awards Hong Kong Film Award for Best Director
Kwan 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 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 star Ruan Lingyu and Everlasting Regret (2005), are all such typical Kwan films. Red Rose White Rose (1994) is an adaptation of an Eileen Chang novel. The film was entered into the 45th Berlin International Film Festival. His 1998 film Hold You Tight won the Alfred Bauer Prize and Teddy Award at the 48th Berlin International Film Festival.
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.
Biography
Kwan est né à Hong Kong, où il suivit ses études jusqu'à recevoir un diplôme en communication de masse au Hong Kong Baptist College. Il trouva rapidement un travail sur la chaîne de télévision TVB. Il réalisa son premier film en 1985 : Women, avec Chow Yun-fat, qui fut un gros succès au box-office.Les films de Kwan tournent souvent autour de femmes en situations difficiles, et de leurs problèmes de cœur. Rouge (1987), Full Moon in New York (1989), Center Stage (1992) et Everlasting Regret (2005), sont ainsi des films typiques de Stanley Kwan. Red Rose White Rose (1994) est une adaptation d'un roman de Eileen Chang.
Kwan fit son coming out en 1996 en réalisant Yang ± Yin, un documentaire sur les films de langue chinoise, vus à travers les rôles de genre et de la sexualité. Il est l'un des quelques réalisateurs ouvertement gays d'Asie, et l'un des très rares à avoir travaillé sur ce sujet. Son film Histoire d'hommes à Pékin (2001) est une adaptation d'une histoire d'amour gay initialement publiée sur Internet.
En novembre 2018 il fait partie du jury du 31e Festival de Tokyo, présidé par Brillante Mendoza.
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Filmography of Stanley Kwan (23 films)
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A Simple Life (2011)
, 1h58Directed by Ann Hui
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Andy Lau, Deannie Yip, Anthony Wong, Wang Fuli, Lawrence Ah Mon, Elena Kong
Roles Guest at Premiere
Rating74%
Roger Leung (Andy Lau), an unmarried middle aged Hong Kong film producer lives with Chung Chun-to (Deanie Ip), a maidservant who has worked for his family for decades. Returning home after a business trip, Roger discovers To on the floor and calls for an ambulance. At the hospital, Roger discovers that To has had a stroke but rather than ask for rehabilitation, To decides she wants to retire and asks to be put in a nursing home. While looking for a nursing home Roger discovers one nearby that is owned by his friend. He installs To there and visits her in between his production jobs. While visiting To, he tells her friends and neighbours that he is her god son in order to explain their connection.
Cinema Is Everywhere (2011)
, 1h26Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about television, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Javed Akhtar, Shyam Benegal, Nouri Bouzid, Fruit Chan (陳果), Stanley Kwan, Sudhir Mishra
Roles Self
Rating74%
The film follows real-time stories of actors, directors and cinema viewers in four different countries. In Tunisia, a documentary film director struggles to have his frank film about human sexuality be seen in their conservative culture. In India, a young actress struggles with the challenges of making a name for herself while dealing with racist barriers. And in Scotland, actress Tilda Swinton and filmmaker Mark Cousins, create a film festival that travels to audiences rather than having the audiences come to the festival. These stories jump back and forth as the narratives develop, interspersed with scenes from video stores, projection booths and homes of all kinds. Toward the end of film there are brief commentaries by Indian film director Sudhir Mishra and Chinese director Fruit Chan.
, 15h15Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry
Actors Alexandre Sokourov, Norman Lloyd, Lars von Trier, Paul Schrader, Kyōko Kagawa, Haskell Wexler
Roles Self
Rating83%
L'histoire du cinéma international racontée à travers l'histoire de l'innovation cinématographique. Couvrant six continents et douze décennies, il montre comment les cinéastes sont influencés par les événements historiques de leur époque et par les autres cinéastes.
Center Stage (1991)
, 2h47Directed by Stanley Kwan
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films
Actors Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Carina Lau, Lawrence Ng, Cecilia Yip, Ruan Lingyu
Roles Self
Rating73%
Stanley Kwan met en scène entre documentaires, interviews et images d'archives ce qu'était la vie de Ruan Lingyu, grande actrice du cinéma muet du Shanghaï des années 1920, que l'on aimait comparer à Greta Garbo.
Director
Everlasting Regret (2005)
, 1h55Directed by Stanley Kwan
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Sammi Cheng, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Hu Jun, Daniel Wu, Crazybarby Leni Lan Yan, Wu Jing
Rating56%
L'histoire de Qiyao, une femme simple dont la vie va s'accélérer le jour où elle deviendra Miss Shanghai. Trahie par les hommes, cette femme très fière survivra à ses amours contrariés tout en étant le témoin privilégié des changements radicaux que connaîtra sa ville, son refuge aussi : la cité de Shanghai, dont elle assistera à la curieuse mutation, de la fin des années 1940 au début des années 1980.
Lan Yu (2001)
, 1h26Directed by Stanley Kwan
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Hu Jun, Liu Ye
Rating70%
In the movie, Lan Yu (藍宇 / 蓝宇 Lán Yǔ), played by Liu Ye, a poor architecture student from northern China desperately needed money. (According to the novel, he was about 16 or 17 years old and a virgin.) It is the late 1980s. Meeting an acquaintance, Li Zheng (Li Huatong), who suggested to Lan Yu that the youth turn to prostitution, supposedly for one night only, to remedy his financial situation. Naively, Lan Yu agreed. That night, he arrived at Li's bar and pool hall to meet his John. While there, Li introduced him to a successful businessman and international trader named Chen Handong (Hu Jun). (Li is also Chen Handong's lieutenant and one of the few people knowing of his sexual inclination.) Lan Yu is evidently smitten for he left with the older man rather than the man he was to meet. The night they spent together was not only a sexual, but also an emotional awakening, for the boy. While Lan Yu immediately fell in love with Chen Handong, the older man, who was very closeted, wanted no emotional relationship, only sex. He tried his best to avoid any attachment whatsoever with the youth, instead he showered Lan Yu with money and expensive gifts. His efforts to turn Lan Yu's love for him into a dependent, loveless relationship failed until Lan Yu discovered Chen in the middle of the seduction of a young college athlete. Crushed, Lan Yu left Chen's apartment. They would not meet again until 4 June 1989, when Chen went looking for Lan Yu, fearing for the youth's safety amid the army's Tiananmen Square crackdown. Finding Lan Yu dishevelled and distraught, the incident reunited the two and opened a new chapter in their relationship.
Hold You Tight (1998)
, 1h39Directed by Stanley Kwan
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Chingmy Yau, Eric Tsang, Sandra Ng
Rating62%
Red Rose White Rose (1994)
, 1h50Directed by Stanley Kwan
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama
Actors Joan Chen, Winston Chao, Veronica Yip, Li Bingbing (李冰冰)
Rating69%
Center Stage (1991)
, 2h47Directed by Stanley Kwan
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films
Actors Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Carina Lau, Lawrence Ng, Cecilia Yip, Ruan Lingyu
Rating73%
Stanley Kwan met en scène entre documentaires, interviews et images d'archives ce qu'était la vie de Ruan Lingyu, grande actrice du cinéma muet du Shanghaï des années 1920, que l'on aimait comparer à Greta Garbo.
Rouge (1987)
, 1h36Directed by Stanley Kwan
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Ghost films
Actors Leslie Cheung, Anita Mui, Emily Chu, Kara Hui, Lau Kar Wing, Patrick Tse
Rating72%
Chan Chen-Pang, better known as the "12th Young Master" (played by Leslie Cheung), was a fashionable playboy who frequented the opium dens prevalent in Hong Kong in 1934, where he met the high-class and much sought-after courtesan, Fleur (Anita Mui).
Love Unto Wastes (1986)
, 1h36Directed by Stanley Kwan
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Tsai Chin, Irene Wan, Elaine Jin, Chow Yun-fat, Tsai Chin
Rating66%
Trois jeunes femmes originaires de Taiwan débarquent à Hong Kong avec la ferme intention de devenir célèbre. Elles font la connaissance d’un jeune homme dans un bar avec qui elles se lient d’amitié et partagent des moments d’intimité. Jusqu’au jour où l’une d’entre elles est retrouvée morte. Un inspecteur de police mène l’enquête et cherche à comprendre ce qui liait réellement les quatre amis profondément affectés par la disparition de la jeune femme.
Women (1985)
, 1h36Directed by Stanley Kwan
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama
Actors Cherie Chung, Chow Yun-fat, Cora Miao, Elaine Jin, Eric Tsang
Rating66%
Chow est un mari infidèle. L’épouse bafouée va alors chercher à se venger sur la maîtresse de son époux, avec l’aide d’un groupe d’amies.
Producer
So Young (2013)
, 2h12Directed by Zhao Wei
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Han Geng / Hankyung, Yang Zishan, Tong Liya, Bao Bei'er, Jiang Shuying, Pan Hong
Roles Producer
Rating63%
Zheng Wei started her college freshman year as a civil engineer major to be in the same city as her childhood playmate, Lin Jing, whom she determined she would marry one day. When Wei visited Jing at his college dormitory however, Jing's roommate told her Jing left for America. Unable to understand why Jing abruptly left without saying goodbye, Wei felt heartbroken.
Miao Miao (2008)
Origin Taiwan
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Kang Ren Wu
Roles Executive Producer
Rating61%
Miao Miao est une jeune lycéenne chinoise un peu introvertie. Elle est transférée à Taipei pour une année scolaire. Là elle fait la connaissance de Xiao-Ai, une jeune fille impertinente et toutes les deux deviennent rapidement inséparables. Mais leur solide amitié sera bientôt contrariée par Chen Fei, un vendeur de CD dont Miao Miao est tombée amoureuse...
Hands in the Hair (2005)
, 1h41Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Rosamund Kwan, Francis Ng
Roles Producer
Rating47%
Autrefois une grande beauté de Shanghai avec de nombreux hommes lui courant après, Aini est maintenant une femme ordinaire, mariée à un mari ennuyeux. Sa richesse, comme sa beauté, se sont évanouies alors que les gens autour d'elle sont devenus de plus en plus riches. Son coiffeur devient le dernier endroit où Aini peut retrouver sa gloire passée. En rendant visite au beau et jeune coiffeur de plus en plus souvent, une passion perdue depuis longtemps est sur le point d'exploser en elle...