''My Fair Son'' () is a 2005
Chinese gay-themed film (first released for public exhibition in the United States in 2009), by Chinese film director
Cui Zi'en
Cui Zi'en (), born 1958, in Harbin in the People's Republic of China, is a film director, producer, film scholar, screenwriter, novelist and an outspoken LGBT activist based in Beijing. He graduated from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences wi ...
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[Queering Chinese Comrades - Through the Lens of Director Cui Zi]
Audrey Tse. ''www.academia.edu''. Retrieved: 25 April 2014. The main characters are Rui (Ray) and the object of his affection, Bo, an employee of his father. The film contains full-frontal male nudity.
Plot
A teenage boy, Ray, returns home from a life with his grandfather to live with his father, after they have been estranged for several years. During the period of their estrangement, Ray spent much of his youth rebelling against his father's lifestyle. After he enrolls in an art school, Ray becomes romantically involved, in a relationship, with another male student, and the pair soon become lovers. His father discovers the two young men in bed together, and begins to understand what it means to live as a homosexual. Ray then meets one of his father's employees, Bo, and falls in love with him, too. Bo is engaged, and admits to Ray's father that he is in love with his son.
Author: Jason Buchanan. Publisher: ''AllMovie.com'' Retrieved: 25 April 2014. The father fires Bo and lies to Ray that he left on his own will. Ray does not accept his father's argument. The film ends with Ray roaming on a terrace with floating transparent images of his childhood pictures.
Cast
* Junrui Wang as Xiao Rui (Ray)
* Weiming Wang as Father of Xiao Rui
* Yu Bo
Yu Bo (; born July 22, 1976) is a Chinese actor.
Biography
Yu was born on July 22, 1976 in Shenyang, Liaoning. From 1996 to 1999 he worked at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing as a security guard.
He entered the Beijing Film Academy i ...
as Xiao Bo
* Guifeng Wang as Unnamed first boyfriend of Xiao Rui
* Ziqiang Li as Unnamed friend of Xiao Rui
See also
* List of Chinese films of 2005
A list of mainland Chinese films released in 2005. There were 260 Chinese feature films produced of which 43 were screened in China in 2005.
See also
* 2005 in China
References
External linksIMDb list of Chinese films
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* List of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender-related films
This article lists lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender-related films involving participation and/or representation of LGBT. The list includes films that deal with or feature significant LGBT issues or characters. These films may involve LGBT ...
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* Nudity in film (East Asian cinema since 1929)
References
External links
* {{IMDb title, 1819769
Filmmaker Cui Zi'en on dGenerate Films website
2005 films
Chinese independent films
Chinese LGBT-related films
Films directed by Cui Zi'en
Films set in China
Gay-related films
LGBT-related drama films
2000s Mandarin-language films
2005 LGBT-related films