Lan Yu is a film by Stanley Kwan, this romantic and tragic love story is set in Begijing. Lan Yu was one of the first films in China that showed full out nudity of an male. It starts off with a businessman Chen Handong who is introduced to a young up coming architecture student named Lan Yu. Handong is only sexually attracted to him at first and doesn't want any long term relationship at all. Lan Yu is very desperate for money they end of sleeping together often and Lan Yu soon starts to fall in love with Handong.
Handong starts to buy Lan Yu many lavish gifts to avoid the emotional attactment, he even started to get involved with another man. Lan Yu comes to the house one evening very happy to see Handong and when Handong opens the door to his apartment and Lan Yu is in shock to see him with another man. But of course Hangond acts like its nothing and its not big deal, Lan Yu runs off and Hangond trys to go after him and tells him that what they had together wasn't nothing real but just a fling.
Later on as the film goes on Handong and Lan Yu meet up by chance and that's when Handong knows that he really is in love with Lan Yu. They basically start allover and this new life Handong buys Lan Yu a house and everythings great but then again he falls in "love " with this women and clams hes going to marry her. It doesn't go Thur and they end up together again. This is when the film gets really sad, Handong gets a call from the hospital and lets him know that Lan Yu has died in an accident while working on a construction site... Its such a sad story but shows the love between both of them, Its crazy to see how Handong didn't love Lan Yu every much in the beginning then he starts to truly love him and when everything is going good he dies its such a sad story and a great movie.
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