Just because Asian movies don't smother the screen with sex doesn't mean a lot of filmmakers aren't, um, doing it. Sex and identity are in. Be it adultery, homosexuality, lesbianism or good new-fashioned sadomasochism, Asian filmmakers and audiences are insatiable.
Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai's frank and ground-breaking Happy Together was among the first to transcend the sexually conventional in 1997. He undressed every girl's bedroom pin-ups, Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai, and started the first few minutes of his movie with a scene showing exactly what men do to each other in bed. At one stroke, amid much...
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