Bishonen... is a 1998

Hong Kong films of 1998

A list of films produced in Hong Kong in 1998:.-1998:-External links:* * Hong Kong films of 1998 at...

 Hong Kong

Cinema of Hong Kong

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 romantic

Romance film

Romance films are love stories that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate involvement of the main characters and the journey that their love takes through courtship or marriage. Romance films make the love story or the search for love the main plot focus...

 drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 about an ill-fated gay

Homosexuality

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 romance. It is directed by Yonfan

Yonfan

Yonfan is a Hong Kong film director and photographer.-Biography:...

 and starred Stephen Fung

Stephen Fung

Stephen Fung Tak-Lun is a Hong Kong based actor, singer, model, writer and film director.-Biography:Fung's mother, Julie Sek Yin, was a famous Shaw Brothers actress...

, Daniel Wu

Daniel Wu

Daniel Yin-Cho Wu is a Hong Kong actor, director and producer. Since his film debut in 1998, he has been featured in over 40 films. Wu has been called "the young Andy Lau," and is known as a "flexible and distinctive" leading actor in the Chinese-language film industry.-Early life:Wu was born in...

 and Shu Qi

Shu Qi

Shu Qi is the stage name of a Taiwanese actress born Lin Li-Hui . Her stage name is occasionally romanized as Hsu Chi or Shu Kei . Her name is sometimes seen in the Western order as Qi Shu.-Early life:...

.

In 2011, the film was screened at the 16th Busan International Film Festival, as part of a retrospective of Yonfan

Yonfan

Yonfan is a Hong Kong film director and photographer.-Biography:...

's films, which featured seven of his restored and re-mastered films from the 1980s through 2000s.

Synopsis

Jet (Stephen Fung

Stephen Fung

Stephen Fung Tak-Lun is a Hong Kong based actor, singer, model, writer and film director.-Biography:Fung's mother, Julie Sek Yin, was a famous Shaw Brothers actress...

) is a handsome gay hustler whose sex appeal

Sexual attraction

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 seems to know no bounds. Everyone wants to make love to him, but he is in love with no one but himself.

Things change drastically when he notices what seems like a young couple in a shop, Sam (Daniel Wu

Daniel Wu

Daniel Yin-Cho Wu is a Hong Kong actor, director and producer. Since his film debut in 1998, he has been featured in over 40 films. Wu has been called "the young Andy Lau," and is known as a "flexible and distinctive" leading actor in the Chinese-language film industry.-Early life:Wu was born in...

) and Kana (Shu Qi

Shu Qi

Shu Qi is the stage name of a Taiwanese actress born Lin Li-Hui . Her stage name is occasionally romanized as Hsu Chi or Shu Kei . Her name is sometimes seen in the Western order as Qi Shu.-Early life:...

). At first sight, he falls in love with Sam and begins following the two around.

Jet's friend Ching, who is also a hustler

Prostitution

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, runs a personal in a gay magazine for Jet, imploring Sam to contact Jet.

At first, Jet is angry with Ching for not asking him, but his wrath subsides quickly when indeed he meets Sam again in what seems like a chance encounter, but actually is an outcome of the personal.

Sam turns out to be a police officer and Jet starts to befriend Sam, hoping this will turn into a relationship. But Sam does not seem to notice Jet's intentions towards him.

Unbeknownst to Jet, Sam had a homosexual affair with pop star K.S.(Terence Yin

Terence Yin

Terence Yin Chi Wai is a Chinese film actor, singer, producer and media relations. Yin has starred in over 30 movies, released one solo album and is presently residing in Hong Kong.- Early life :...

) five years earlier. At the same time, Ching had been in unrequited love with Sam (then calling himself Fai) when the two were still office workers.

Ching comes to his apartment shared with Jet when Jet and Sam are there, instantly recognizes Sam as Fai and is furious with Jet for stealing his beloved.

Cast includes

• Stephen Fung
  Stephen Fung
  Stephen Fung Tak-Lun is a Hong Kong based actor, singer, model, writer and film director.-Biography:Fung's mother, Julie Sek Yin, was a famous Shaw Brothers actress...
  
   - Jet
• Daniel Wu
  Daniel Wu
  Daniel Yin-Cho Wu is a Hong Kong actor, director and producer. Since his film debut in 1998, he has been featured in over 40 films. Wu has been called "the young Andy Lau," and is known as a "flexible and distinctive" leading actor in the Chinese-language film industry.-Early life:Wu was born in...
  
   - Sam
• Shu Qi
  Shu Qi
  Shu Qi is the stage name of a Taiwanese actress born Lin Li-Hui . Her stage name is occasionally romanized as Hsu Chi or Shu Kei . Her name is sometimes seen in the Western order as Qi Shu.-Early life:...
  
   - Kana
• Terence Yin
  Terence Yin
  Terence Yin Chi Wai is a Chinese film actor, singer, producer and media relations. Yin has starred in over 30 movies, released one solo album and is presently residing in Hong Kong.- Early life :...
  
   - K.S
• Jason Tsang
• Kenneth Tsang
  Kenneth Tsang
  Kenneth Tsang Kong is a Hong Kong actor. Tsang's career has spanned 50 years and included a variety of acting roles.Tsang was born in Shanghai, China with family roots in Jida, Zhuhai, Guangdong. He attended high school in Wah Yan Hong Kong and then Wah Yan, Kowloon...
  
  
• Chiao Chiao
• Tat-Ming Cheung
• James Wong
  Wong Jim
  James Wong Jim was a Cantopop lyricist and writer based primarily in Hong Kong. He was also a well known in Asia as a columnist, actor, film director, screenwriter and talk show hosts. He took part in creative directing positions within the entertainment industry in Hong Kong...
  
  
• Joe Junior
  Joe Junior
  Joe Junior is a popular Hong Kong English pop singer from Hong Kong during the 1960s. He has since been in a number of TVB drama series in the 1990s and 2000s playing older character roles. Joe Junior is his stage name. Regularly appeared on TV music programs as host and as performer...
  
  
• Paul Fonoroff
  Paul Fonoroff
  Paul Fonoroff is one of Hong Kong's best known film critics and movie historians.Fonoroff studied Chinese language at Brown University and earned his masters in fine arts at the University of Southern California. He also earned a PhD at Beijing University in Chinese cinema.Fonoroff has lived in...
  
  
• Michael Lam
  Michael Lam
  Michael Lam Wai-Leung is a Hong Kong Chinese film actor. He has appeared in numerous films, in several of which he has played the lead role. He first appeared in the film The Night Rider....
  
  
• Jim Lam Yim
• Man Ming Ma
• Brigitte Lin
  Brigitte Lin
  Brigitte Lin or Brigitte Lin Ching Hsia is a Taiwanese actress. She was a popular actress, regarded as an icon of Chinese cinema, who acted in both Taiwanese and Hong Kong movies...