Japanese queer/gay cinema

[shota ogawa]

Apologies for my mistake, I got Somai mixed up with Jissoji.
Perhaps homoerotic encounter is a convention in Gakuen-mono although I am
not so familiar with the field.
House/ Obayashi Nobuhiko also has a homosexual undertone.

I'm sure someone mentioned this already, but Nakajima Takehiro's Okoge is
also interesting.

There is also Zoku Akumyo (or Shin Akumyo) with Katsu Shintaro which has an
okama side-kick character,
although the representation of okama might be a separate field.

shota


On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Michael Kerpan <mekerpan at verizon.net>wrote:

> 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).
>
> --- On *Thu, 4/15/10, shota ogawa <shota.ogawa at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: shota ogawa <shota.ogawa at gmail.com>
>
> Subject: Re: Japanese queer/gay cinema
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Date: Thursday, April 15, 2010, 11:25 AM
>
> 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.
>
> Also, there is a lesbian couple in Jissouji's Typhoon
> Club.----------------------------------------
>
>


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