Fleeing By Night (2000)

Both are LGBTQ+ films that send a message about letting love slip through your fingers.

Both are LGBTQ+ films that send a message about not letting love slip through your fingers.

The settings in both are similar; they both involve opera singers and theatrical setting for the most part.

Both films are about the lives of a homosexual opera singer in China before, during and after WW2. His talents attract the attention of an obsessive patron and he is forced to sacrifice himself again and again for the sake of his troupe. He is also inlove with another man who is involved with a woman.

-Peking Opera
-Male playing a female role in an opera is admired and celebrated for his beauty and talent