Director Ang Lee will always be most closely associated with 'Brokeback Mountain' when it comes to his contributions to the world of gay cinema, but it far from his first entry into the genre. He made 'The Wedding Banquet' back in 1993; an almost farcical comedy about both gay relations and race relations.
The plot revolves around a gay Taiwanese immigrant who finds himself forced into a marriage with a Chinese woman both to keep his homophobic parents happy, and also to secure his new wife a green card so she can stay in the country. Everything starts to unravel when, unexpectedly, his parents travel to the United States to help him arrange his wedding banquet, and he finds himself trapped inside a lie he can't possibly maintain. Winston Chao and May Chin take the lead roles in the film, which was made as an act of co-operation between the United States and Taiwan.