Stanley Kwan
Liu then played a young homosexual man in the film "Lan Yu" (2000) by Stanley Kwan, which earned him the Best Actor award at the Golden Horse Awards. Thereafter, Liu starred in many acclaimed films such as "Sky Lovers" (2002), which won him the Artistic Contribution Award at the Tokyo International Film Festival;, "Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress" (2002), which helped Liu break into Hollywood. as well as the avant-garde drama film "Purple Butterfly" (2003), which competed in the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.