<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>These don't count as major themes, but there are homosexual/transexual/transvestite elements in Wild Zero (transvestite, played mainly for comedy), Wizard of Darkness (female teacher having affair with female pupil) and Misa the Dark Angel (relationships between female schoolgirls). As I said, these don't really qualify as major themes, but they are present, and they go beyond the fairly chaste same-sex crushes depicted frequently in anime and other media.</DIV>
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<DIV>Jim.<BR><BR>--- On <B>Wed, 14/4/10, Dick Stegewerns <I><dick.stegewerns@xs4all.nl></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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<DIV class=plainMail>Dear colleagues,<BR><BR>I have a graduate student who wants to write on Japanese films dealing with homo- or trans-sexuality but who is not terribly successful in finding films and sources. I am afraid my mind is blank and I cannot think of more than a handful of films (not pink or porn) in which homosexuality is a major theme and cannot recollect having read one book or article on the subject.<BR><BR>Film titles and reading suggestions (both English and Japanese) most welcome.<BR><BR>Regards,<BR><BR>Dick Stegewerns<BR>Oslo University<BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></td></tr></table><br>