Stanley Kwan

Stanley Kwan

Stanley Kwan is a 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. 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.

  • Title: Stanley Kwan
  • Popularity: 4.033
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1957-10-09
  • Place of Birth: Hong Kong, China
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  • Also Known As: 关锦鹏, 關錦鵬, Kwan Kam-Pang, Quan Kum Ping, 관금붕
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Stanley Kwan Movies

  • 1997
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    Still Love You After All These

    Still Love You After All These

    1 1997 HD

    A personal memoir reflecting upon director Stanley Kwan's career and identity, set upon the backdrop of the 1997 handover of Hong Kong. Kwan adopts a...

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  • 2012
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    A Simple Life

    A Simple Life

    7.5 2012 HD

    The relationship between a middle-aged man and the elderly woman who has been the family's helper for sixty years.

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  • 2011
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    Cinema Is Everywhere

    Cinema Is Everywhere

    9 2011 HD

    A documentary feature film that ties four narratives - from China, India, Scotland, and Tunisia - together with countless insights from venerable...

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  • 2024
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    Naked Nations – Tribe Hong Kong

    Naked Nations – Tribe Hong Kong

    1 2024 HD

    Naked Nations is a deeply human, joyful, poignant and heartbreaking film about freedom and its many manifestations, fragility and limits, a film...

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  • 1991
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    Center Stage

    Center Stage

    7.4 1991 HD

    Based on the tragic true story of China's first prima donna of the silver screen, Ruan Lingyu, chronicling her rise to fame as a movie actress in...

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  • 1993
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    Talking with Ozu

    Talking with Ozu

    6.5 1993 HD

    A tribute to the legendary Japanese film director featuring the reflections of filmmakers Lindsay Anderson, Claire Denis, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Aki...

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  • 2016
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    The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden Horse

    The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden Horse

    1 2016 HD

    In 2013, the Golden Horse Film Festival celebrated its 50th anniversary. The ministry of Culture commissioned director Yang Li-chou to make a...

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  • 2020
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    Keep Rolling

    Keep Rolling

    8 2020 HD

    One of Hong Kong's most influential filmmakers, Ann Hui, becomes a “star” for the first time in Man Lim-chung's directorial debut. A...

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  • 2024
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    Fly Me to the Moon

    Fly Me to the Moon

    7.4 2024 HD

    Sisters moving from Hunan to Hong Kong in the 1990s are faced with an identity crisis, poverty, and their father's drug addiction.

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  • 2011
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    13 Minutes in the Lives of...

    13 Minutes in the Lives of...

    1 2011 HD

    A HKIFF short film by Stanley Kwan. Stanley Kwan takes us on a real-time bus trip from the airport to Kowloon in 13 Minutes in the Lives of…...

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  • 2001
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    Lan Yu

    Lan Yu

    7.1 2001 HD

    A love story between a country boy in Beijing to study and a wealthy businessman set against the backdrop of the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident.

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  • 2008
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    Miao Miao

    Miao Miao

    5.6 2008 HD

    Struggling to adjust to her new life in Taipei, introverted high school girl Miao Miao opens up after meeting outgoing classmate Xiao Ai who becomes...

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  • 2008
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    Miao Miao

    Miao Miao

    5.6 2008 HD

    Struggling to adjust to her new life in Taipei, introverted high school girl Miao Miao opens up after meeting outgoing classmate Xiao Ai who becomes...

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  • 1999
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    Love Will Tear Us Apart

    Love Will Tear Us Apart

    6.4 1999 HD

    The film gets under the skin of a very marginalized group: recent immigrants to Hong Kong from Mainland China. Belying the expectation that they will...

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  • 2005
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    Everlasting Regret

    Everlasting Regret

    5.5 2005 HD

    A person's life is destined to be shorter than that of a city. Having spent her whole life in Shanghai, Qiyao has her moments of prosperity and her...

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  • 2005
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    Hands in the Hair

    Hands in the Hair

    4 2005 HD

    For 10 years, Ani, a young wife and mother, has sported the same hair style. She has a humdrum life and a platonic relationship with young Mr. Ahua,...

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  • 1991
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    Center Stage

    Center Stage

    7.4 1991 HD

    Based on the tragic true story of China's first prima donna of the silver screen, Ruan Lingyu, chronicling her rise to fame as a movie actress in...

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  • 1987
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    Rouge

    Rouge

    7.4 1987 HD

    Amid the opulent teahouses of 1930s Hong Kong, a humble courtesan and the wayward scion of a wealthy family fall in love and embrace death by suicide...

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  • 1986
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    Love Unto Wastes

    Love Unto Wastes

    6.6 1986 HD

    Four young people spend their time living the wild life - until one of them is brutally murdered in a burglary. The survivors come under the scrutiny...

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  • 1998
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    Hold You Tight

    Hold You Tight

    5.2 1998 HD

    Two women are bound for the same plane, one of whom makes the flight while the other does not. In a cruel twist of fate, the plane crashes, killing...

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  • 2024
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    Borrowed Time

    Borrowed Time

    7.5 2024 HD

    A late summer typhoon looms as Ting’s wedding approaches. Urged on by her mother, Ting sets out from Guangzhou to Hong Kong to look for her...

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  • 2013
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    So Young

    So Young

    6.2 2013 HD

    Although new friendships and new love await her, a college freshman discovers that university life is not as simple as she had hoped.

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  • 1985
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    Women

    Women

    6.8 1985 HD

    Liang Pao-erh joins the carefree Spinsters' Club when she discovers her husband is having an affair. Despite the seemingly happy front that her...

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  • 1998
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    Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema

    Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema

    5.4 1998 HD

    An exploration of Chinese cinema and its relationships with gender and sexuality, which the film argues has been more frankly and provocatively...

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  • 1994
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    Red Rose White Rose

    Red Rose White Rose

    6.5 1994 HD

    Chronicles the love life of a man, Zhenbao. He has a steamy fling with the wife of a friend, the saucy and exciting Red Rose. Even though he feels...

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  • 1989
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    Full Moon in New York

    Full Moon in New York

    7.8 1989 HD

    Three Chinese women with vastly different backgrounds get acquainted and become friends amid the social desolation of New York.

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  • 2000
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    The Island Tales

    The Island Tales

    6.5 2000 HD

    A group of disparate characters find themselves trapped overnight on a island somewhere off the coast of mainland China. The circumstances force them...

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  • 2010
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    Showtime

    Showtime

    1 2010 HD

    Shanghai, 2009. After four years of studying, a group of dance students are wished well by their teacher as they start rehearsals for their...

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  • 1980
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    The Saviour

    The Saviour

    5.2 1980 HD

    Inspectors Tong (Shaw Brothers regular Pai Ying) and Cheng (Kent Cheng) are investing a psychopathic serial killer who has been raping and murdering...

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  • 2021
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    人間煙火

    人間煙火

    1 2021 HD

    A short feature film by Stanley Kwan, bringing us back to the world of Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung in Rouge, with the new cast Cecilia Yip and Ng...

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  • 1980
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    The Spooky Bunch

    The Spooky Bunch

    5.3 1980 HD

    A Cantonese opera company is attacked by an army of ghosts, thanks to a feud between the dead grandfathers of one of the company's actresses and a...

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  • 2018
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    Till the End of the World

    Till the End of the World

    6.2 2018 HD

    The unlikely pairing of a spoiled millionaire venture capitalist scouting for extreme wedding tour locations and a grounded science photographer en...

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  • 2016
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    New York, New York

    New York, New York

    6 2016 HD

    It’s 1994 and Lu Tu (Ethan Juan) is the youngest concierge ever at five-star Chinese hotel; smart, loyal and honest, he’s respected by...

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  • 1986
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    Dream Lovers

    Dream Lovers

    6.5 1986 HD

    Musician Song Yu and jewellery designer Yuet-heung, who barely know each other, meet in their dreams before finally uniting in person.

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  • 1986
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    Armour of God

    Armour of God

    7 1986 HD

    Jackie Chan stars as Asian Hawk, an Indiana Jones-style adventurer looking to make a fortune in exotic antiquities. After Hawk discovers a mysterious...

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  • 1997
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    Love Is Not a Game, But a Joke

    Love Is Not a Game, But a Joke

    8 1997 HD

    Three friends begin a contest to find Karen, a particular girl they all like. The limits: one month, and no advertising or radio. The prize: the...

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  • 1995
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    Dragon Killer

    Dragon Killer

    4.5 1995 HD

    A boat load of illegal Chinese immigrants make it to the California coast. But many of those on board are in a sad state. One of them (Tony Liu)...

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  • 2011
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    Quattro Hong Kong 2

    Quattro Hong Kong 2

    1 2011 HD

    Four short tales set in contemporary Hong Kong.

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  • 1970
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    Someone Like Me

    Someone Like Me

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1989
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    Hearts, No Flowers

    Hearts, No Flowers

    7 1989 HD

    A youth film about four city lasses.

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  • 2016
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    One Day in Our Lives of…

    One Day in Our Lives of…

    1 2016 HD

    Stanley Kwan casts an impassive eye on a film crew in a recording studio in "One Day in Our Lives of…" with a diva, a young director, his...

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  • 1992
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    Too Happy for Words

    Too Happy for Words

    7 1992 HD

    Stanley Kwan's 1992 short film starring Josephine Siao and Maggie Cheung

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  • 1993
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    Kin chan no Cinema Jack

    Kin chan no Cinema Jack

    1 1993 HD

    Kin chan no Cinema Jack is an anthology film starring Yuen Biao and produced by Jackie Chan

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  • 2003
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    The Floating Landscape

    The Floating Landscape

    5.9 2003 HD

    Maan has recently lost her lover, Sam, a painter who died tragically of an incurable disease. Before his death, he was remembering a beautiful...

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  • 2016
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    Never Said Goodbye

    Never Said Goodbye

    6.9 2016 HD

    Junhao declares to go to Sicily to learn opera and ends the relationship with his fiancée, Xiaoyou. In disbelief, she determines to learn the...

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  • 1982
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    The Postman Strikes Back

    The Postman Strikes Back

    6.4 1982 HD

    Four heroes embark on a secret mission for Dr Sun Yat Sen's Nationalist Guard. Relentlessly pursued by the warriors of notorious Warlord Yue Sai...

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  • 2018
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    First Night Nerves

    First Night Nerves

    3.6 2018 HD

    Yuan Xiuling, a former star and has-been actress plans to return to the spotlight of the theater a year after her philandering husband died. She...

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  • 1996
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    Irma Vep

    Irma Vep

    6.7 1996 HD

    Hong Kong action diva Maggie Cheung (playing herself) comes to France when a past-his-prime director casts her in a remake of the silent classic Les...

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  • 1980
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    The Beasts

    The Beasts

    5.6 1980 HD

    A father seeks revenge from a gang of thugs who raped his daughter and murdered his son.

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  • 1997
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    Still Love You After All These

    Still Love You After All These

    1 1997 HD

    A personal memoir reflecting upon director Stanley Kwan's career and identity, set upon the backdrop of the 1997 handover of Hong Kong. Kwan adopts a...

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  • 1982
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    Boat People

    Boat People

    7.6 1982 HD

    A Japanese photojournalist revisits Vietnam after the liberation to document the nation, and begins following and documenting the young children from...

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  • 1981
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    The Story of Woo Viet

    The Story of Woo Viet

    6.3 1981 HD

    Wu Viet is a Vietnamese refugee who wants to leave his country behind and start over in the United States. First, he must make his way to Hong Kong,...

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  • 2011
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    The Story of Film: An Odyssey

    The Story of Film: An Odyssey

    7.627 2011 HD

    A worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made and the story of international cinema through the history of cinematic innovation.

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  • 1962
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    Golden Horse Awards

    Golden Horse Awards

    1 1962 HD

    The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards (Chinese: 台北金馬影展; pinyin: Táiběi Jīnmǎ Yǐngzhǎn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī:...

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