<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I would suggest Okoge (1992, Nakajima Takehiro) and the documentary Rasen no sobyo (1991, Kojima Yasufumi). For those who can read Italian, and interesting essay has been published in AsiaMedia at <a href="http://venus.unive.it/asiamed/vetrina/proposte/omosessualita.html">http://venus.unive.it/asiamed/vetrina/proposte/omosessualita.html</a><div><br></div><div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>Il giorno 15/apr/2010, alle ore 16.43, Michael Kerpan ha scritto:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Are you referring to Shinji Somai's Typhoon Club -- or some other film (by Jissoji)? (I can't recall many details of Typhoon Club -- last seemn too long ago).<br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 4/15/10, shota ogawa <i><<a href="mailto:shota.ogawa@gmail.com">shota.ogawa@gmail.com</a>></i></b> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><br>From: shota ogawa <<a href="mailto:shota.ogawa@gmail.com">shota.ogawa@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: Japanese queer/gay cinema<br>To: <a href="mailto:KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu">KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</a><br>Date: Thursday, April 15, 2010, 11:25 AM<br><br>
<div id="yiv1570280925">Oshima's Gohatto has been mentioned, but many other Oshima films depict gay or queer characters; the Korean conscript who performs a harakiri after sodomizing a dutch prisoner of war in Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, the Catholic priest in Death by Hanging, and the opening scene of In the Realm of the Senses. <br><br>Also, there is a lesbian couple in Jissouji's Typhoon Club.----------------------------------------<br></div></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>