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“And in some way maybe it shouldn’t have because I know anywhere you have naked men there’s going to be some sort of homoerotic tension.”īut considering the taboo nature of LGBT identity in some Asian communities, Ahn ran into issues casting his movie, which features an entirely Asian cast and is mostly in Korean with English subtitles. “It was so tied into my sense of my Korean identity to find out it was being used for gay cruising, it came as a complete surprise,” he said. Ahn remembers going to the spa with his dad near the end of every year to cleanse their minds, bodies and spirits before the new year, a ritualistic family bonding event. While working there, he discovers the not-so-secret world of hookups happening in the saunas of the men’s-only establishment, and he eventually has one of his own.Īhn, 30, who wrote and directed the film, came to the idea for the script a few years ago when a friend told him about a “hot hookup with a guy at a spa.” His first thought: “sacrilegious,” he said, because spas are a very traditional, almost sacred place in Korean culture. When his parents are forced to close their restaurant because of low business, he picks up a part-time job at a spa in Koreatown. “Spa Night” follows the coming of age of David, a first-generation Korean American attempting to live out his parents’ dreams of him attending USC - if he can get those SAT scores up. “To create a culture that was really about this intersection.” “In many ways, what I was trying to do with ‘Spa Night’ is to create something that felt both queer and Korean at the same time,” he said. But with his first feature film “Spa Night,” opening Friday at West Hollywood’s Sundance Sunset, he’s rejecting that notion head-on. That statement left Ahn feeling “fractured, like your Korean identity and your gay identity can’t live in the same place,” he said. When Andrew Ahn came out as gay, he was told by his Korean father that gay Koreans didn’t exist that being gay was an American concept and he was only gay because he was Korean American.