Japanese queer/gay cinema

[Jim Harper]

These don't count as major themes, but there are homosexual/transexual/transvestite elements in Wild Zero (transvestite, played mainly for comedy), Wizard of Darkness (female teacher having affair with female pupil) and Misa the Dark Angel (relationships between female schoolgirls). As I said, these don't really qualify as major themes, but they are present, and they go beyond the fairly chaste same-sex crushes depicted frequently in anime and other media.
 
Jim.

--- On Wed, 14/4/10, Dick Stegewerns <dick.stegewerns at xs4all.nl> wrote:


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



      
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