Japanese queer/gay cinema

[Jessica Langer]

Hi Dick,

I'm not sure if this is directly relevant, as it is a Hong Kong film, but
Yim Ho's fantastic film *Kitchen *(1997) is an adaptation of the Banana
Yoshimoto novel of the same name. It looks like there was also a 1989
adaptation directed by Morita Yoshimitsu, but I haven't seen it. The story
revolves partially around a young man and his transsexual/transvestite
(there sems to be some slippage between the two categories) father who
became his mother. The novel is certainly worth reading, and it would
probably be worth it to see both films.

Hope this helps your student.

Jessica Langer
Research Associate, Royal Holloway, University of London

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 4:49 PM, 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
>
>
>
>
> 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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