Japanese queer/gay cinema

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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 http://venus.unive.it/asiamed/vetrina/proposte/omosessualita.html


Roberta Novielli




Il giorno 15/apr/2010, alle ore 16.43, Michael Kerpan ha scritto:

> 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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