It’s a rather strange movie description so bear with me here! I definitely can’t remember the title or any of the names of the characters/actors seeing as I watched it with english subtitles about 4 or 5 years ago. I even watched it online so it’s impossible for me to track down…

Anyway, it was definitely a Chinese film taking place in a more historical setting with emperors, generals, war, you know the ususal. The story focused on the relationship between two men. I believe one of the men was of a higher/royal power and the other had some kind of position in their army ??? I’m not quite sure. Either way, they were lovers. At some point everyone kept nagging the higher power (let’s just call him the king) to have an heir, but he was repulsed by sleeping with a woman. So, for some reason he told his lover to sleep with his wife so that she can become pregnant.

The lover goes through with it and some time afterwards realizes that he actually enjoyed being with the opposite sex. It gets a bit fuzzy from there, but I do remember the wife and the king’s lover are caught “in the act” inside a storage room or something. The king is so offended that he throws him in prison or castrates him; something like that.

I just remember the ending scene being of the two lovers riding on horses in a grass field… Apparently there was a painting they both admired that had the same scene. Another scene i vaguely remember are severed heads on spears place outside a castle ??? It was a very strange and dramatic film… If anyone by chance knows of or has seen this movie I’d greatly appreciate the title!