Happy Together

Accompanying Metrograph’s run of Isao Fujisawa’s newly restored, groundbreaking 1974 Bye Bye Love, a landmark of gender-nonconformist Japanese cinema, this series of works by master filmmakers from Japan, South Korea, and Greater China (Mainland, Taiwan, and Hong Kong) takes a look at queer lives, in a wide variety of periods and cultural contexts, as lived throughout East Asia. Including Wong Kar-wai’s 1997 tale of l’amour fou that provides the series its namesake, Stanley Kwan’s Beijing-set melodrama Lan Yu, based on a controversial internet-published novel of verboten gay romance, and more than a dozen other films distinguished by their daring in both subject matter and formal approach.