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...make Lan Yu and I, based on a gay novel published pseudonymously on the Internet. Kwan, a specialist in soft-focus romantic doom (Rouge, Red Rose, White Rose), filmed in secret and without official clearance. The story, about city-man Handong (Hu Jun) and country-boy Lan Yu (Lu Yue), could be a ripe pile of clichE if not handled deftly, but the clarity of Kwan's view gives the affair a somber tang. "You probably don't know it, but I love you," Handong says toward the end, and Lan Yu replies, "You probably don't know...
...Zhao, the first film directed by the cinematographer Lu Yue, uses the improvised style of U.S. Method-man John Cassavetes to tell the story of a philanderer caught between a jealous wife and a demanding mistress. Will he leave the one for the other? He doesn't want to decide; he's a practiced evader. What's clear is that his wife plays the role of the exasperated mother, his mistress the role of the spoiled daughter. Eventually we learn that he has another woman in his battered heart; this small film packs a final emotional wallop...
After discovering my disappointing budget and skeptical tastes, the shopkeeper directed me up the street to the Chinese medicine counter of the Yue Hwa Chinese Products store. That was like a treasure chest of herbal helpers. I read the box labels and admired the packaging, most of it red and gold, some of it vaguely pornographic. All of the products make wide-ranging claims. East Superman Pills: "Strengthening the functional activities of the loins and knees, and the sinews and the bone as well." Strong Man Bao: "Fights recurring back aches, depression, degeneration and impotency." Chinese Dragon Tonic: "Battles impotence...
Graduate students Yoshi Futamura, Eckart Lange, and Tsay-Shing Yuan made up Harvard's first team, undergraduates Michael Levin and Yi Gu and grad student Kefeng Liu were on its second team and the third team included undergraduates Louis Tao and Captain Ken Yoon and grad student Yue...
...final quarter was a little closer, but even with many of its reserves on the field, Harvard still had the edge. Goalie Michael Bergmann, who made 10 saves and allowed only one goal, was replaced by Jim Yue, who made six saves and gave up three goals...