Tag: Japanese
Funeral Parade of Roses
This is a re-issue of the seminal edgy Japanese arthouse movie from 1969 that for a very long time was unavailable in the U.S. even though is was one of major influence for Stanley Kubrick when he made A Clockwork Orange. It is very loosely based on the ancient Greek legend of Oedipus (the…
At The Terrace
It’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…
Elska’s Men of Yokohama
Elska 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…
LIKE FATHER LIKE SON
In 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…
Eden
This 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…