Owen Wu

Yang Ke, a Beijing Opera actor, is fatefully driven into the underworld of masculine sex workers, and becomes a class of his own. He finds himself on a roller coaster between heavenly love with both men and women, and a living hell ensnared by devious villains and hypocrites. Despite his faith, endeavor and willingness to give, he remains a prisoner to his karma. Hell awaits when heaven seems near, and the ultimate truth is revealed only in a heartbreaking moment from which there is no return.

In the late-night streets of Yokohama, Japan, a male prostitute encounters a film director. He boldly offers himself for an audition, only to be confronted with the haunting question: "What is love?" In the heart of downtown Tokyo, a same-sex couple who have been together for seven years find the spark in their relationship fading. They decide to invite a third person to join them, unaware that the arrival of this mysterious stranger will irrevocably transform their lives. Inside an adult cinema, a "money boy" in the back row meets a middle-aged married man in the front. Their transaction carries a hidden undercurrent of danger. In the vast expanse of the city, these young men are struggling to survive, wavering in their pursuit of affection. But in the end, what does true love really mean?

A dying scholar gathers 12 young men at his remote manor to explore death through philosophy, ritual, and transgressive acts—blurring the line between thought and obsession.

In the mist room, in the dim light, the steaming heat is floating and overflowing. The flickering male bodies, sucking each other's desire and loneliness, the more squeezed, the thirsty. You seem to have entered the forbidden area by mistake in formal attire, falling between dream and waking, staring, and being stared at. You can't remember how you came here or how to get out. Theater and video director Zhou Dongyan once again touched the life experience of gay men’s community culture that is hard to articulate but difficult to cut. This time, he moved the poetic lens language into VR, taking you and me to the male sauna, peeling off the layered desires, and exploring the hidden love in some kind of lovelessness.