Japanese queer/gay cinema

[Quentin Turnour]

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 an increasingly 
curious Jean Genet like comic allegorical about HIV. 

Imaizumi has a background acting in 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.

Quentin Turnour, Programmer, 
Access, Research and Development
National Film and Sound Archive, Australia
McCoy Circuit, Acton, 
ACT, 2601 AUSTRALIA







Dick Stegewerns <dick.stegewerns at xs4all.nl> 
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Dear colleagues,

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.

Film titles and reading suggestions (both English and Japanese) most 
welcome.

Regards,

Dick Stegewerns
Oslo University




On 13.04.2010 04:51, Alex Bates wrote:
> How was the film?  I'm looking forward to seeing it.
> There is a great resource at the Japan Foundation for finding 
translations:
> http://www.jpf.go.jp/e/culture/media/exchange/translationsearch.html
> A search there showed translations in German, Spanish, Polish, Italian, 
> Hungarian and Czech, as well as English.
> Here is the citation for the English version:
> "Villon's Wife" translated by Donald Keene, in New Directions 15, 1955. 
> pages: 176-195
> best,
> Alex
> 
> Alex Bates
> East Asian Studies
> Dickinson College
> Carlisle, PA 17013
> 
> 
> 
> On Apr 12, 2010, at 10:19 PM, Michael Kerpan wrote:
> 
>> Just enjoyed seeing Negishi's new adaptation of Dazai's Villon's Wife 
>> -- and wonder if there is an English translation of the source story?
> 


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