Directed by: Daishi Matsunaga
Written by: Makoto Takayama, Daishi Matsunaga, Kyoko Inukai
SUMMARY
A gay photographer meets and takes in a struggling sex worker, supporting him financially as his boyfriend. But the sex worker dies. A film about not understanding what love really is, Kosuke then turns his attention to financially helping Ryota's mother.
RATING
B+
This is a film about not understanding what love really is, and we have our main character Kosuke as someone who doesn't really understand love. The film, with its quiet Japanese attitude, doesn't condemn Kosuke, as a Western film might, but rather just studies him quietly. A man who loves and loves deeply, but whose form of love is to support financially, and somehow always returns to being about himself. He's not a villain. I don't even really think he's a narcissist, but just someone who is missing something. This film is shot in a very guarded kind of way, a lot of shots from the back.
SUMMARY
A gay photographer meets and takes in a struggling sex worker, supporting him financially as his boyfriend. But the sex worker dies. A film about not understanding what love really is, Kosuke then turns his attention to financially helping Ryota's mother.
RATING
B+
This is a film about not understanding what love really is, and we have our main character Kosuke as someone who doesn't really understand love. The film, with its quiet Japanese attitude, doesn't condemn Kosuke, as a Western film might, but rather just studies him quietly. A man who loves and loves deeply, but whose form of love is to support financially, and somehow always returns to being about himself. He's not a villain. I don't even really think he's a narcissist, but just someone who is missing something. This film is shot in a very guarded kind of way, a lot of shots from the back.