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Thanks for subscribing! Ben Yuen, who stars as Cantonese opera actor Brother Darling, took home Best Supporting Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards and Golden Horse Awards for Tracey.
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Been there, done that? To further Soo's career, Sang Yi convinces him to join the company and move into the company residence with him. Watch them navigate their grief amidst this revelation.
Lighthearted and irreverent at times, Die Beautiful explores what it means to really live - and die - as your true self.
Been there, done that? With Younglawa, I hope to portray my vision for a new generation of Asian masculinity.
Utopia continues to pursue its original goal to improve the lives of Asian lesbians and gay men, to build community, and to foster a deeper understanding of gay life in the region.
The Utopia Asia website remains the Internet's most popular and comprehensive English-language resource for the multi-faceted homosexual subcultures of Asia.
At 74 years old, picture book writer Yamazaki struggles with accepting his age and faded looks.
Choo Sang-woo (Park Jae-chan) is an uptight computer science major who is forced to work with Jang Jae-young (Park Seo-ham), an artist whose personality is the complete polar opposite – and who Chu had previously screwed over in a university project. Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon!
Been there, done that?
Moneyboys is a glimpse into the oft hidden struggles of gay people and sex workers within a society that is modernised yet still conservative at heart.
Rei (Kiko Mizuhara) helps Nanae, who Rei’s been in love with for years, escape her abusive husband.
In 2005 we published 10 Utopia Guides to the region starting with China, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam. The duo sets off a journey to solve a crime together and ends up developing a bond they never expected.
If you’re into Single’s Inferno and EXchange, don’t miss Korea’s first queer reality dating show Merry Queer, which follows the romance and coming out stories of three couples – a gay couple, a lesbian couple, and a transgender couple.
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Yi as his first feature film, Moneyboys follows a group of sex workers in southern China. Most of the boys relate to playing with the bubbles when they were younger, almost as if revisiting a nostalgic memory through them.
In what ways do you hope Younglawa will challenge these stereotypes?
Hidhir Badaruddin: The name ‘Younglawa’ is a play of words between English and Malay sounding like ‘Yang Lawa’, translates to ‘(someone) that is beautiful’ or ‘the beautiful’.
While on the run, the two women find themselves crossing the blurred lines between love, obsession, and self-destruction. I want the world to know how diverse and multifaceted Asian men can be, that brown Asians are also part of Asian identity as much as East Asians. Making history as Japan’s first same-sex dating programme, The Boyfriend follows a group of nine men in their twenties and thirties who are put together in a villa à la Terrace House in the hopes of making a love connection.
The show is thankfully a far cry from the trashiness of Love Island, with the boys cosily learning how to coexist as friends and potential lovers in between writing each other letters and running a coffee truck to make dinner money.
This is your quintessential enemies-to-lovers joyride, with leads that you can’t help but root for.
Winning the Watcha Award at the 2022 Busan International Film Festival, Peafowl follows trans woman Myung who tries to raise money for gender-affirming surgery by taking part in a dance competition.
Despite the cheesy plot, fans adore the actors’ chemistry and the series quickly became a global phenomenon with a sequel and movie.
Another Thai BL series in a school setting, except this follows the journey of two highschoolers as they navigate friendship, self-discovery, and love.