"I burn with love, sparing no time to sleep. Now, my ailing body burns fiercely in a whirlpool of satisfaction and emptiness." A slightly sad love movie.
Akamatsu was a popular actor in his youth, and now in his forties, he plays supporting roles in dramas. It is well known that he is gay, and whenever he has time, he goes to Sachi, a gay bar owned by Michiru and Takashi. One day, Wakamatsu's friend, producer Shinozaki, introduces him to Kikuo, an aspiring screenwriter. Reading Kikuo's script, Wakamatsu's desire to make him a top-notch screenwriter arises, but before long, Wakamatsu realizes that he is seriously in love with Kikuo... A slightly sad love movie.
Kenji Wakamatsu
Takeshi, the bar owner
Shinohara, producer
Takai Kikuo
Chinatsu
Michiru, the drag queen
15 Jan 2012
When Gabe and Jonathan fall in love in the 1940s, they decide to spend their life together in secret. But when Jonathan unexpectedly passes away years later, Gabe is faced with the fact that many Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender elders face when they move into retirement homes...he must return into the closet.
19 Jul 2003
The first part, "My Brother's Lover," tells the story of a gay man's sister falling for his boyfriend. Graduate student Takeo lives with his sister, but he can't bring himself to tell her about his gay boyfriend, Riku. When Riku comes over to their house to have sex with Takeo, his sister falls in love with him. The second part, "His Child," tells the story of Akihiko, a man who falls for his straight friend and ends up looking after his friend's baby at his request. His lover, Yuki, can't stand seeing the baby. Is balancing love and child-rearing just as difficult for gay men?
14 Jun 2014
Harley tries to deal with his tumultuous emotions after his gay best friend Lucas is horribly beaten in a hate crime. When Lucas is released from the hospital, Harley discovers his feeling have changed.
24 Sep 1997
A bored couple takes in a young man who turns their lives inside out.
03 Jan 1996
Veteran detective Ishiyama and novice detective Kawanishi are in charge of a case in which a young man was raped and then murdered in a hotel. Kawanishi begins investigating Otori and comes into contact with several men. Is the culprit a martial arts enthusiast, an SM enthusiast, or someone unexpected? During the investigation, the following incident occurs. Kawanishi becomes lustful every time he meets men and begins to realize that he is gay. What did Kawanishi see the next morning, intoxicated with dazzling pleasure?
14 Oct 1994
Yakuza Joji and his boyfriend Ken stole cash from a drug deal. Their goal with the money is the southern country of Sri Lanka. However, if they are caught by the gang, they will be killed as traitors. In the midst of their anxiety, the two lose track of time and fall in love... What will be their fate on the day they fly off to Sri Lanka, their dream?
20 Jul 1994
Street vendor Kazuo, Hiroshi, and Umenosuke live together despite the relationship between Kazuo and Hiroshi. Then, a young man Asashi appears in the guise of wanting to open a "Yakisoba" restaurant...
03 Jan 1994
A certain high school. There was a boy who was being bullied in class. The hot-blooded teacher who has just been transferred to the school fights head-on with the bullies in his class to save the boy. A boy who opens his heart to such a teacher. However, over time, romantic feelings began to develop between the boy and the teacher, which eventually developed into a physical relationship...
29 Apr 1993
A suspicious man named Yoshioka, who claims to be a friend of Takashi's late father, offers a car as payment for two university students acting in a private adult video. The two friends Takashi and Shogo desperately want a car to make their campus life more meaningful, so they reluctantly agree to appear in a gay adult video together. They somehow manage to get through the humiliating filming and get the promised car. Takashi thinks he'll never do it again, but at that moment something he doesn't realize is beginning to sprout inside him. The next day, Takashi is called by Yoshioka to visit his office. Yoshioka's sponsor, a man who calls himself Hayami, appears before Takashi. Hayami asks Takashi to appear in another gay adult video, and if he refuses, he will copy Yoshioka's tape and distribute it everywhere. Takashi succumbs to the blackmail threats, but during the filming of the video, Shogo looks for him.
24 Jul 1992
Takeo is a university student struggling to pay off his loans and lives a tight life while working part-time as a male escort. For him, sex is just about money or pleasure. After picking up a female university student, Takeo catches a sexually transmitted disease and his debts and medical expenses pile up, putting him in a desperate situation. Then another man called Shinji comes up with a brilliant idea.
25 Apr 1992
Takeshi, an up-and-coming fashion designer, is being courted by his manager Ichiro, but somehow manages to escape. He didn't hate Ichiro, but there was something about him that made him want to avoid him..
20 Dec 1991
A dangerous disease and fear that befalls a happy gay couple...
23 Apr 1990
A prep school student who has been dumped by his girlfriend is approached by a middle-aged man and goes on a treasure hunt on a remote island, and wanders into a mansion in the woods where vampire brothers are said to live.
20 May 1989
Tokio and Yamashita's encounter was sudden. At that time, a detective named Yamashita came in front of my husband, who was addicted to drugs. Yamashita, who was also gay, forcibly held Tokio on the spot instead of having him arrested. At that time, Tokio fell in love with Yamashita. Yamashita, who was dismissed from his post due to a certain incident, suddenly disappears from Tokio's presence...
25 Dec 2004
Yusuke is 25 years old and lives with his father. He has taken care of him since he lost his mother when he was little. Yusuke has been in a relationship with Shinozaki, a famous gay photographer, as a stylist, model, and lover for the past year or so. The amount of money he receives from Shinozaki is considerable, and he himself does not know whether this is love or compensated dating. He also casually has sex with the owner of a gay bar where he works part-time. One day, Yusuke learns that his father is planning to remarry, and the woman comes to the gay bar where Yusuke works part-time.
28 Feb 1998
A boy from a group of gay men hanging out in the town of Ueno started dating a man, at first just for fun, but more like he was trying to play dumb with him.
23 Apr 2005
A strange man with saran wrap wrapped his whole body in wrap and played with him with a vibrator. A man who is a vegetable fanatic thrusts a bitter melon into him. A man who is a seafood enthusiast shoves shrimp into his mouth... Right now, he's facing his true self for the first time." At that moment, the man remembered that he had been in a traffic accident...
27 Aug 2021
Two's company, three's allowed? From family disputes and unexpected babysitting duties to uncomfortable high school memories, manga drawing and friendships pushed to the next level - the Male Gaze series lifts the lid on six very different gay relationships and encounters. When two become three and outsiders enter the fray, what are the group dynamics at play? The short films are: Golden Boys (2017); In Beating Cells [In Pocheden Zellen] (2017); The Middle of a Lake [Le milieu d'un lac] (2017); Gilles (2016); Kiko's Saints [Les saints de Kiko] (2019); With Thelma [Avec Thelma] (2017).
23 Dec 1984
Soichi is the heir to a major trading company, commonly known as Apollo. He is living an elegant life on a yacht when his mother-in-law offers him an arranged marriage. As a gay man, he finds the idea annoying. Apollo leaves the yacht in the hands of his boyfriend, Masao, and returns to his parents' house. However, when Apollo is away, three strangers come onto the yacht and rape Masao. When Apollo hears Masao's voice calling for help, he returns to find...
10 Jun 1991
A middle-aged man comes to the coast in search of some place to die. But that beach was a gay beach. There, the man meets a gay young man for a reason...