Best Asian BL (Boys love) Movies
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- DirectorHee-il LeesongStarsKwak Si-yangJae-Joon LeeJun-ha ChoiYong-ju, Gi-woong and Gi-taek used to be best friends in middle school, but in high school, Gi-woong becomes a member of the gang that bullies Gi-taek. As Yong-ju tries to fix broken relationship, he realizes his feelings toward Gi-woong.
- DirectorChookiat SakveerakulStarsSinjai PlengpanichSongsit RoongnophakunsriPimpan BuranapimTwo boyhood friends are separated due to the disappearance of the sister of one of them, then later meet again as teenagers, when one of them has become a pop singer, and they discover feelings that they did not know they had.
- DirectorNaphat ChaithiangthumStarsAtthaphan PhunsawatNorrapat SakulsongGump and Nai's love is tested when Gump must move in with an attractive new student, while Nai gets a surprise visitor from his past.
- DirectorNaphat ChaithiangthumStarsKorn KhunatipapisiriSuraphat KirivichienNorrapat SakulsongThe story reveals a strong friendship between Pid, Arm, Zee and Gump. Zee asks Gump to hangout several times, but the latter says he has a prior commitment with Nai every time. Thus the suspicion began. Zee and the other orchestrates several means to find out if their friend is in love with a man or not with the help of Uncle Lek who likes to be called Aunt Alexandra.
- DirectorChihiro AmanoStarsShôichi MatsudaYuya MitoMasashi TaniguchiToshiaki is a young gay man. On the first day of work, he meets Yosuke in the elevator. Yosuke is Toshiaki's new boss. Toshiaki is attracted to Yosuke. Toshiaki can't be honest with his feelings about it due to a traumatic incident from his past.
- DirectorSun ChengzhiStarsMeng RuiBowen WangWhen Shu Nian was 12-year-old, he was adopted by Xie Yan from an orphanage. Nian was five years older than Xie and he worked as a page boy for him until Xie Yan went abroad to study. The main story began after Xie Yan returned home when he was 25 years old (Shu was nearly 30). Xie had a slightly tendency of homophobia and after he returned home he noticed that Shu was gay. He knew himself was not gay but he cannot control himself and just fell in love with Shu Nian. However, many obstacles will appear between them.
- DirectorJho Kwang-soo KimStarsLee Chae-eunLee JehoonGo Su-heeExpecting a cozy night outside of the barracks, Seok visits his boyfriend Min-soo who is serving in the military. However when Min-soo's mother questions their relationship, the only answer they can give is that they are 'just friends'.
- DirectorKôtarô TerauchiStarsYoshikazu KotaniTakumi SaitôHiroya MatsumotoBoys Love, the first film released in 2006, tells the story of Taishin Mamiya, a magazine editor who meets and interviews a young model, Noeru Kisaragi, and becomes attracted to him. Their love, however, is forbidden. The tagline of the movie is "All we did was love each other, but...our love is forbidden.
- DirectorKôtarô TerauchiStarsYoshikazu KotaniAtsumi KannoYuuki KawakuboAn erotic cat and mouse game set in an all-boys' prep school.
- DirectorKei HorieStarsTakumi SaitôRyûnosuke KawaiYutsuki KatoAfter Noboru saves Hayase from drowning by giving him mouth-to-mouth, Hayase grows confused about his feelings. It doesn't help that around the same time he meets Noboru's twin brother Ryu who has a very different, outgoing personality.
- DirectorScudStarsSean LiOsman HungJackie ChowThe life story of a young man who has been pursuing an impossible love with his straight boyfriend and contemplating on the mortality of his loved ones.
- DirectorSatoshi KanedaStarsHidenori TokuyamaYasuka SaitoRinako MatsuokaOotani and Tachibana have been inseparable since high school. Now that they're in college, they live together, they're happy and everything seems prefect. But their little world is disrupted when they meet an old high school friend, Yuki, who seems to have a crush on Tachibana, making Ootani feel jealous and insecure. Will Tachibana really choose him over a pretty girl?
- DirectorNitchapoom ChaianunStarsTeerapat LohananNatouch SiripongthonWithawat ThaokhamlueThe love of two schoolboys, Golf and Bank. Golf is an aggressive boy and Bank is gentle, considerate and sweet-natured.
- DirectorRachyd KusolkulsiriStarsAusavapat AusavaterakulNappon GomarachunPapangkorn LerkchaleampoteA group of male swimmer, focusing on two of them, with their daily life. The first meeting wasn't so bad. But next thing he know, his hands was tied and his mouth choked with a cloth only to find his mates circling around him and telling him rumours about his roommate. Meuk, the new guy thought that Nam, his roommate would be as what his mates talk about. But what he see is different than what he imagined. A tale that tells about love triangle, the hardships of love, the true meaning of love, and how a minute is more than just a minute...
- DirectorTanwarin SukkhapisitStarsSteven FoorerNatouch SiripongthonSuttinut UengtrakulA young man who gets frustrated in love meets another who loses all his memories and they find some ways to start a new life together.
- DirectorStanley KwanStarsYe LiuJun HuHe DuA young, gay student has a relationship with an older, successful businessman. The handsome playboy-businessman must choose between his comfortable, yet closeted straight life, or an honest, yet subversive life with the student.
- DirectorLee Joon-ikStarsKam Woo-seongJung Jin-youngKang Seong-yeonTwo clowns living in Korea's Chosun Dynasty get arrested for staging a play that satirizes the king. They are dragged to the palace and threatened with execution but are given a chance to save their lives if they can make the king laugh.
- DirectorScudStarsByron PangThomas PriceWinnie LeungOpenly gay banker Daniel debates whether to return to Australia or stay in Hong Kong when he meets Kafka, a straight swimming instructor. The young men fall in love, believing that their love can bridge anything, despite their difference in sexuality and Kafka's increasing drug use. Daniel does not regret his love for Kafka, who tries to love him back against his nature. But a flashback memory from Kafka's past makes it difficult for their relationship to work.
- DirectorKyu-dong MinStarsJu Ji-hoonKim Jae-WookYoo Ah-inJin-hyeok opens a cake shop in an old antique shop, hiring Seon-woo, Korea's best pastry chef, who fell in love with him in high school. Also there, are Su-young, crushing on Seon-woo, ex-boxer Ki-beom, and Seon-woo's French ex-boyfriend.
- DirectorPoj ArnonStarsRattanaballang TohssawatChaiwat ThongsaengWiradit SrimalaiAn informant and a hit-man find themselves passionately entwined after double-crossing their crime lord employers.
- DirectorYun-ho YangStarsKim Kang-wooKim Gyu-riSu-kyeong LeeOfficers Kyung-yoon CHO and Eun-joo PARK are on the hunt a killer following duo of ghastly murders. The victims carry a common military past, and the secret of their past must be unraveled to find the killer.
- DirectorJoselito AltarejosStarsHarry LaurelJennifer LeeJustin De LeonMateo is a lighthouse caretaker dating a teacher, Suzette, in a small town that is trying to increase tourism. Jerome stumbles across Mateo and Suzette having sex while he is on holiday from Manila. A local gay man who pays local teenage boys for sex talks to Mateo about the negative aspects of being gay in the Philippines. According to local legend, a lighthouse fairy seduces desirable men who then never marry. Mateo's relationship with Jerome leads to self-reevaluation.
- DirectorHsiu-Chiung ChiangStarsLi-li PanMei-Nyu GaoMorning Tzu-Yi MoA woman who believes she chose an unconventional path in her life is startled to find her children are stepping farther beyond society's boundaries in this drama from Taiwanese filmmaker Hsiu-Chiung Chiang. Ai-tsao (Li-li Pan) is a widow who is nearly 60 years old; her husband, over twenty years her senior, has been dead for nearly two decades, and Ai-tsao's life has settled into a comfortable routine of looking after her elderly mother and doting on her two adult children. Ai-tsao had a strong independent streak when she was young and struck out on her own over the objections of her parents, but she's not quite as willing to accept that her children have chosen lives different from her own. Ai-tsao slowly comes to the realization that her son is gay and struggles to come to terms with his lifestyle, but it's even more difficult for Ai-tsao when she discovers her daughter is going to be the unwed mother of a mixed-race child.
- DirectorJho Kwang-soo KimStarsDong-Yoon KimRyu Hyun-kyungJeong Ae-yeonTo keep their sexual orientation a secret, a gay man and a lesbian woman gets married. Now they have to juggle their identities to fool parents and co-workers, all while trying to find real love.
- DirectorNgoc Dang VuStarsManh Hai LuongVinh Khoa HoLinh Son NguyenKhoi, a naive twenty-year-old, travels to Ho Chi Minh City from the countryside to begin a new life. It's his first time in the big city and he's looking for a place to live. He befriends Dong, a handsome extrovert who offers to share his apartment. When Khoi goes to check the place out, he meets Lam, who also appears to be living there. Khoi decides to stay, but while he showers, Dong and Lam - who turn out to be boyfriends - run off with all his cash and belongings. It's not long before Lam is himself abandoned by Dong, and winds up back on the street as a prostitute. Meanwhile the penniless and disillusioned Khoi takes on menial jobs to survive. Lam and Khoi are eventually reunited, and despite Lam's past actions, the two become closer and closer - even though Khoi becomes more and more troubled by Lam's dangerous source of income. At the same time, Cuoi, a mentally handicapped man abandoned by his family, attempts to befriend a female prostitute. Her pimps do not take kindly to his hanging around and scaring away customers, but she takes pity on him and ultimately becomes his protector.