Boys Love
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Kotani Yoshikazu, Saito Takumi Director: Kohtaru Terauchi Brand: Wolfe DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Japanese (Original Language) Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Running Time: 83 minutes DVD Release Date: 2008-03-18 Audience Rating: Unrated Studio: PICTURE THIS |
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Movie Reviews of Boys Love
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Summary: 2 Stars
Of recent, I have watched several East Asian films, mainly Taiwanese, dealing with the topic of homosexuality. Some, such as Zero Chou's Spider Lilies and Leste Chen's Eternal Summer, have been quite hard hitting and truly did a good job treating the subject of female and male homosexuality in a tasteful way without relying on too much camp or sappiness to tell their respective stories. However, others such as Yu Jong-jong's Go Go G-boys was so campy and gay that one is hard pressed to take it seriously (not that the director was intending for the film to be taken seriously). Then there is Terauchi Kotaro's first rendition of his film Boys Love (2006), a straight to DVD film, he made a second film under the same title for theatrical release in 2007, which pours poorly executed scenes of sap that could not be cut with a white hot knife.
Boys Love revolves around the relationship of the uptight spiky haired journalist Mamiya Taishin and the effeminate, aggressive high school model Kisaragi Noeru. The two meet while Mamiya is on his first big assignment: to interview Noeru. Kisaragi likes Mamiya because not only does he not ask the same vapid questions of other interviewers, but also because he takes interest in Kisaragi's artwork, especially a painting which depicts a boy looking out to sea. The two go out to a pricey restaurant, and while Mamiya is getting ready to urinate in the restroom, Kisaragi cups his hands around the journalist's manhood and drags him into a bathroom stall. However, before Kisaragi is able to do anything, Mamiya escapes. Not to let his sexual interest escape him, Kisaragi has his manager call Mamiya's magazine company to demand that Mamiya apologize to him. Mamiya goes to Kisaragi's apartment and is quite surprised to find a businessman in the buff putting his clothes back on. As the viewer later learns from Kisaragi's best friend, and wannabe lover, Chidori, Kisaragi apparently sleeps with a different man every night to fill up some inner need. Determined to change Kisaragi, Mamiya becomes closer to the young man, and during that relationship he might begin to feel emotions that he did not know that he possessed.
Boys Love, to put it briefly, is a disappointing film. Filmed with a cast whose looks are better than their acting abilities, it comes off quite ham-fisted, and contrived at some times, especially the scenes in which Kisaragi and Chidori cry because of their wounded hearts. I could feel the bile rising in my throat at much overdramatized scenes. A gay writer friend of mine once said that most gay fiction is nothing more than bad romance novels with an overabundance of penises. Boys Love, or at least the 2006 rendition, encapsulates this statement, and offers little else to the audience.