Thirty Years of Adonis (2017)

Original title

三十儿立

Directed by

Scud

Genre

LGBTQ-related film

Country

Hong Kong

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

NR

Rating

4.7 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man pursues training as a Beijing Opera actor in Hong Kong. He then shifts into work as a commercial sex worker for both men and women.

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What happens

Thirty Years of Adonis (Chinese: 三十儿立), is a 2017 film by the Hong Kong film-maker Scud, the production-crediting name of Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung. It is a story of a young man who decides to pursue acting as the Beijing Opera actor, and soon becomes a commercial sex worker for men and women. The movie explores several themes traditionally regarded as 'taboo' in Hong Kong society and features full-frontal male nudity in several scenes. It is the seventh publicly released film by Scud. The six other films are: City Without Baseball in 2008, Permanent Residence in 2009, Amphetamine in 2010, Love Actually... Sucks! in 2011, Voyage in 2013, and Utopians in 2015. The movie features footage from Utopians. The eighth film, Apostles, was made in 2022, as was the ninth, Bodyshop, but neither have yet been released. The tenth and final film, Naked Nations: Hong Kong Tribe, is currently in production. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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