Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIt’s tough enough adapting a stage play into a movie at the best of times, but when it is set in a different culture and language it’s a hard one to pull off for a mainstream audience to get behind and enjoy. Writer/director Kenji Yamauchi’s movie At The Terrace, which seems the nearest thing to … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterElska is an intriguing bi-monthly British based queer bookazine that focuses on Local Boys + Local Stories Each issue is shot in a different city, and as we have said before what queerguru loves about Elska is the fact that the images of some real looking men of all shapes and sizes that fill their … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn the opening scene a young 6 year-old boy is sitting upright in a low chair spaced away from his parents who are either side of him. All three are dressed formally in black and are facing two officials behind a desk in this stark room who are firing questions at the boy. It’s all very … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis Eden is hardly the biblical ‘Garden of God’ but a small tacky Bar in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district where some very enthusiastic but totally untalented Drag Queens put on Shows. The opening scenes of the movie are in the Bar where Miro the frustrated Choreographer is trying to put this clumsy set of performers through … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis highly stylised melodrama reverently covers an elegant period in Japanese society in the late 1930’s when wealthy m erchants families revelled in all the steeped traditions of courtship and marriage. With both parents dead Tsuruko the eldest Makioka sister is the head of the family and as she and Satchiko (the second eldest) are already … Continue reading
