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Browse 39 movies from Cine Cosmo Japan
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...
Jul 1994
A man stabbed another man with a pair of scissors. The fallen man was his rival designer, Aoki. The main character is a very famous designer who works on Miya-sama's dress. Suddenly the famous designer wakes up, the corpse of Aoki disappeared as soon as he took his eyes off. The anxious designer teacher asks his disciple Reiji for comfort. There is another disciple called Junko present in the home. Next to him is Aoki, who should have died but is alive. Apparently these two are planning something. A designer teacher and two disciples at a villa by the sea. Is it a love-hate drama that unfolds in a closed room? No, that's not all.
Oct 1994
A father who is lazy with money. Kai, the son who always wipes his father's butt. He's a very healthy man. Even if his father sold him to a former male prostitute, Kai could not abandon his father. The person who kindly watches over him is Ryosuke, the owner of the beach house where the father and son suddenly drop by. Ryosuke tries to help Kai somehow, but...
Oct 1996
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...
Jan 1994
A mysterious transgender murder group wearing black dresses appears. It is a brutal method in which the targeted man are raped and then killed. Ohara is asked to investigate and discovers the existence of a gay man named Shimizu. However, Ohara, who has always been interested in relationships between men, ends up having an affair with Shimizu...
May 1991
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...
Dec 1984
Manila city. Fernando Suzuki noticed the popularity of sumo in Japan and decided to make a profit by holding sumo classes locally. They are recruiting young people who want to succeed as sumo wrestlers in Japan. Philnando can't stop smiling at the unexpected number of applicants. They immediately start a training camp, but it is difficult to teach sumo to young people who have never tightened a mawashi, let alone how to step on a shiko. As Fernando watched the sweaty young men take a shower, he noticed one of them, Enrico. He immediately called her to his room...
Dec 1992
International scholar Kenzo Ishikawa is calling for environmental protection and ecology awareness on a stage. However, the audience is small and the reaction is not good but one man called Haruo was listening enthusiastically. They both meet again at a bar where Ishikawa continues his ecology speech. Haruo wanted to hear more from Ishikawa and visited his house where they embrace after disposing of clothes they deemed harmful for the environment. To further protect the environment Haruo wants to blow up a disposible chopsticks factory and he prepares to make a bomb but Ishikawa doesn't agree with him.
Hosts Hikaru and Tomoya quit the host club Ginza Rose without permission. However, in reality, Hikaru invited Tomoya and lured her to Fashion Health, where the pay was high. When the two go to work, they are immediately introduced to the regular customers as new employees, but because they are being followed by the store's number one customer, Toru, who finds out about this, ends up resenting him...
May 1995
Yoichi, who is tired of living in Tokyo, works as a clerk at an inn run by Osawa, a senior he admired when he was a student. The two are attracted to each other. but the feelings are in each others hearts. Set in an inn in Shinshu. It depicts a heartrending love story of a young man who is tired of the city.
Mar 1996
National Route 16 connects Yokosuka, Atsugi, and Fussa. It was a road that connected bases to bases, but it was also a route for the movement of drugs. On such "Dobita Street," a man prostitutes himself, robs, and sells drugs to delinquent American soldiers. A painful fate that forces one to turn to crime in order to survive.
Aug 1985
Takeshi Harada is a single office worker bad at socializing. His colleagues create rumors that he is gay and interested in male employees but Takeshi is sure he is not. One day while eating his lunch at the rooftop a man called Makoto Nagasawa approaches him and tells him he was transferred from a Hokkaido branch office to work here. While facing each other Takeshi feels strange in his chest. He wonders if he is interested in men and comes to terms with his feelings for Makoto. He decides he wants to confess to Makoto.
Jan 1995
At the end of World War II, Japan was on the brink of defeat after atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Soichiro, Teru, and other kamikaze members of the naval squadron were waiting for the arrival of the kamikaze equipment with Nagasawa in his hospital bed. During the day, he was doing special training, and at night, he was waiting for him while repeating his ordeal with Kinuyo, the woman who provided for the inn. A few days later, a Zero fighter was finally assigned to them and they set out on a special attack in the early morning of August 15th, but...
Jan 1990
Painter Haruhiko returned from Paris for the first time in a while to hold his solo exhibition. There, he sees Shinji, who looks exactly like Shingo, his old lover who passed away. Shinji turns out to be Shingo's younger brother. Shinji secretly read his brother's diary and learned about Haruhiko's relationship with his brother. Haruhiko becomes conscious of Shinji while immersing himself in the memories of those days, but Shinji has a girlfriend, Azusa. Shinji wants to know more about his older brother when he was alive, so he promises to meet Haruhiko again at a later date, and they part ways. The sequel to "Twilight Narcy."
Dec 1991
An old man and his apprentice arrive at an inn that is about to be taken over. When the two learn that the man who came to take over is gay, they decide to trap the him using the apprentice as bait in order to save the inn. Shot on location in the Nagano Prefecture.
Mar 1997
Shiro is a director and actor who works on underground plays. He is rehearsing in a leotard for a performance with Kei and Kimihiko, actors in his theater company. Ticket sales for the performance were good, but the production costs were high and they were currently short of funds. However, Kimihiko, whose family was wealthy, was supposed to make up for it. Shiro relied on Kimihiko for this aspect of his work. Kimihiko was happy about it and treasured the warmth of Shiro's hand when he held it. However, during the rehearsal for the first day of the performance, two of the props, Sanshiro and Shiro, secretly...
Oct 1992
Haruhiko, a painting student, is intertwined violently until the morning in an old Western-style building. Haruhiko, who works at a bar in Sanada where many gay men gather, continues this relationship sly, thinking that it is not something he can continue. At that time, Shingo comes to the store. Shingo always goes to a hill overlooking the city of Yokohama, where Haruhiko often goes to sketch. Feeling destined, Haruhiko gently put his hand on Shingo's hand.
A salaryman, Aisuke, was molested by an older man on a crowded commuter train. He couldn't forget the excitement and started looking for the man every morning. When he finally finds the man, he denies knowing anything . But Aisuke is not convinced, an so follows him home...
Jan 1986
Jinta of Tonegawa, commonly known as Banana Boy. He is a "self-proclaimed artist" who dresses as a woman and performs striptease acts. Accompanied by his attendant "Furuchin," who calls Jinta his teacher and respects him as an older brother. Jinta is a futen boy who travels north, south, east, and west to show off his skills and live a carefree life. However, Jinta, who has a bad taste in men, attacks boy boys wherever he goes, earning him a bad reputation from the promoter, and now he is unable to hear from anyone and is out of money. Kaede, the healthy younger sister, is deeply in love with Jinta, but is worried deep down...
Jul 1986
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.
Apr 1990