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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); ">Shinjuku Triad Society (1995) by Miike Takashi is an excellent film for this analysis. In addition to the homosexual relationship between the main villain Wang and his lover, the detective Kiriya's younger brother is also alluded to have been in a homosexual relationship. <div><br></div><div>I've heard an argument that the Kiriya himself was involved in a homosexual relationship as well, but I'm not sure that I agree with that reading of the film. <div><div><br></div><div>The film is very typical to Miike's style of extreme violence (involving homosexual rape in an interrogation scene), but a valuable source nonetheless. I particularly find the power relations interesting between the 'victimized' characters and the leads in the film, as both Wang's lover and Kiriya's younger brother have a power over these otherwise uncontrollable men. </div><div><br></div><div>Rob Buscher<br><div>MA Candidate Japanese Studies, SOAS</div></div></div></div></span><br><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:33:52 +1000<br>From: Quentin.Turnour@nfsa.gov.au<br>To: KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu<br>CC: KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu; owner-KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu<br>Subject: Re: Japanese queer/gay cinema<br><br>
<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Completely no expert here (I can't think
beyond Oshima's GOHATTO) but you should certain try to have a look at Imaizumi
Koichi's new Crazy Family/Pink/Gay hybrid THE FAMILY COMPLETE which just
premiered at HKIFF. Very ordinarily shot on video, but it develops into
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pink movies, but since the late 90s has been writing and directing first
Gay porn and then more recently gay-themed features like HATSU-KOI.</font>
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Access, Research and Development<br>
National Film and Sound Archive, Australia<br>
McCoy Circuit, Acton, <br>
ACT, 2601 AUSTRALIA<br>
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Dear colleagues,<br>
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I have a graduate student who wants to write on Japanese films dealing
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with homo- or trans-sexuality but who is not terribly successful in <br>
finding films and sources. I am afraid my mind is blank and I cannot <br>
think of more than a handful of films (not pink or porn) in which <br>
homosexuality is a major theme and cannot recollect having read one book
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or article on the subject.<br>
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Film titles and reading suggestions (both English and Japanese) most <br>
welcome.<br>
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Regards,<br>
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Dick Stegewerns<br>
Oslo University<br>
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On 13.04.2010 04:51, Alex Bates wrote:<br>
> How was the film? I'm looking forward to seeing it.<br>
> There is a great resource at the Japan Foundation for finding translations:<br>
> http://www.jpf.go.jp/e/culture/media/exchange/translationsearch.html<br>
> A search there showed translations in German, Spanish, Polish, Italian,
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> Hungarian and Czech, as well as English.<br>
> Here is the citation for the English version:<br>
> "Villon's Wife" translated by Donald Keene, in New Directions
15, 1955. <br>
> pages: 176-195<br>
> best,<br>
> Alex<br>
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> Alex Bates<br>
> East Asian Studies<br>
> Dickinson College<br>
> Carlisle, PA 17013<br>
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> On Apr 12, 2010, at 10:19 PM, Michael Kerpan wrote:<br>
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>> Just enjoyed seeing Negishi's new adaptation of Dazai's Villon's
Wife <br>
>> -- and wonder if there is an English translation of the source
story?<br>
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