Kwan was born in Hong Kong, and he landed a job at the TVB after receiving a mass communications degree at . Kwan's first film was ''Women'' , which starred Chow Yun-Fat, and was a big box-office success.
Kwan's films often deal sympathetically with the plight of women and their struggles with romantic affairs of the heart. ''Rouge'' , ''Full Moon in New York'' , ''Centre Stage'' , a biopic on silent film star Ruan Lingyu and ''Everlasting Regret'' , are all such typical Kwan films. ''Red Rose White Rose'' is an adaptation of an Eileen Chang novel.
Kwan as a gay man in 1996 in ''Yang ± Yin'', his documentary looking at the history of Chinese-language film through the prism of gender roles and sexuality. He is one of the few openly gay directors in Asia and one of the very few to have worked on these themes. His ''Lan Yu '' adapts a gay love story originally published on the Internet.
Filmography
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* ''Love Unto Waste''
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* ''Full Moon in New York''
* ''Too Happy for Words''
* ''Centre Stage'', aka ''The New China Woman'' or ''Actress''
* ''Red Rose White Rose''
* ''Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema''
* ''Hold You Tight''
* ''Still Love You After All These''
* ''The Island Tales''
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* ''Everlasting Regret''
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