Blue Gate Crossing is a 2002 Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

ese film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 by writer-director Yee Chin-yen

Yee Chin-yen

-Biography:Yee Chih-yen attended UCLA between 1983 and 1988.-Filmography:* Dangerous Mind * About Love * Blue Gate Crossing * Lonely Hearts Club -Awards:...

. It was nominated for Best Asian Film at the 23rd Hong Kong Film Awards

23rd Hong Kong Film Awards

Ceremony for the 23rd Hong Kong Film Awards was held on 4 April 2004 in the Hong Kong Cultural Centre. Hosts for the ceremony consisted of Dayo Wong and a line-up of nine female celebrities, namely Bowie Tsang, Athena Chu, Candice Yu, Cherrie Ying, Terri Kwan, Ada Choi, Josie Ho, Kristy Yang and Jo...

 held in 2004.

Cast

• Bolin Chen
  Bolin Chen
  Bolin Chen also known as Berlin Chen was born 27 August 1983. He is a Taiwanese-born model, actor and singer.He began his career as a model in his late teenage years. At the age of 19, he had his first head role in the Taiwanese movie Blue Gate Crossing . In 2004, he started filming movies in...
  
   as Zhāng Shì Háo (張士豪)
• Kwai Lun-mei
  Kwai Lun-mei
  Kwai Lun-Mei is a Taiwanese actress. She started her acting career in the movie Blue Gate Crossing as Meng Ke Rou. Lun-Mei then appeared in a few more movies before she went on to gain more recognition in the movie Secret directed by Jay Chou, which Kwai acted as the female lead, Lu Xiao Yu with...
  
   as Mèng kè róu (孟克柔)
• Liang You Lin as Lín Yuè Zhēn (林月珍)

Reception

The film has been well-received critically. Dennis Lim, in a review for the Village Voice, observed the film's "meticulous framing and haunting use of repeated motifs" reflects the influence of Taiwanese New Wave

Cinema of Taiwan

The history of Chinese-language cinema has three separate threads of development: Cinema of Hong Kong, Cinema of Mainland China and Cinema of Taiwan . Taiwanese cinema grew up outside of the Hong Kong mainstream and the censorship of the People's Republic of China.Taiwanese cinema is deeply rooted...

 directors Hou Hsiao-hsien

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Hou Hsiao-Hsien is an award-winning film director and a leading figure of Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement.-Biography:...

 and Edward Yang

Edward Yang

Edward Yang , along with Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Tsai Ming Liang, was one of the leading filmmakers of the Taiwanese New Wave and Taiwanese Cinema. He won the Best Director Award at Cannes for his 2000 film Yi Yi .-Biography:...

. The Portland Mercury described the film as "a modern-day Chinese lesbo twist on the old Cyrano story" that "treads new territory in the teen coming of age drama realm," praising Yee's "haiku-like directorial lyricism."

External links

• "A Taipei Love Triangle", TIME