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Shura's Destination poster
Movie

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...

Shura's Destination

May 1995

Cold Gaze Friendship poster
Movie

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...

Cold Gaze Friendship

Jan 1994

Atonement poster
Movie

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...

Atonement

Oct 1996

Midday Serenade poster
Movie

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.

Midday Serenade

Oct 1994

Benny Boy poster
Movie

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.

Benny Boy

Aug 1985

The End of the Season poster
Movie

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...

The End of the Season

Jul 1994

Wandering poster
Movie

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.

Wandering

Mar 1997

Running Men poster
Movie

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.

Running Men

Mar 1996

Ginza Neon River Winter Butterfly poster
Movie

Madoka Sawa, a one-woman hostess, faces off against Akira, who is competing for the most popular hostess spot at a gay bar in Shinjuku. Akira steals Kusumi, who was her sponsor, and ends up opening a "Night Park" in Shinjuku, but Madoka falls into a trap set by Akira and is fired from the store. In despair, he vows revenge.

Ginza Neon River Winter Butterfly

Jan 1986

I Hear the Aria poster
Movie

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.

I Hear the Aria

Jan 1995

Twilight Narcy 2 poster
Movie

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."

Twilight Narcy 2

Dec 1991

Yearn For poster
Movie

A beautiful boy who aspires to be in the entertainment world. He betrays his friends and acquaintances and rises to the top, but in the end he too is betrayed...

Yearn For

Aug 1985

Kimi to boku poster
Movie

"Junai" is a bar run by Okama's mom and is crowded day and night with male and female couples and gay men. The Miss Pure Love Contest is scheduled to be held soon, and Yamakawa, a regular customer who is obsessed with Kimitaro, an employee of the store, boasts that Kimitaro will be the one chosen again this year. Kimitaro, who had an early shift that day, left Goro, his junior, to handle the rest of the customer service, and got into the car of his girlfriend, Yukio, who had come to pick him up. The two went to see the sea at night and kissed in the car without paying attention to the people around them.

Kimi to boku

Jul 1989

Just Die Alone poster
Movie

Ken has been chasing after his ex-boyfriend, who he lost touch with after he was transferred to Southeast Asia, but his sadness at not being able to see him again leads him to have an impromptu relationship with a local man who asks him out. Three years have passed since then. One day, while living with his new partner, Masashi, Ken noticed something strange about his body and wonders if his body might have been infected with HIV...

Just Die Alone

Dec 1992

Bay Bridge: Yearning poster
Movie

Takatori, the master of a snack bar in Yokohama, and Tony, an employee, are lovers. Every night after the store closes, the two drive across the Bay Bridge and make love to Takatori's luxury apartment. One evening, as they were crossing the Bay Bridge as usual, they saw a young man standing there looking lonely. Tony falls in love with him at first sight. That night, Takatori, who was extremely jealous, desperately sought Tony. Afterwards, Takatori goes out alone to prepare the store, and begins to take an interest in the young man he sees every day.

Bay Bridge: Yearning

Dec 1990

Shôwa Popular Song: Jealousy poster
Movie

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.

Shôwa Popular Song: Jealousy

May 1991

Rose Youth poster
Movie

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.

Rose Youth

Jul 1992

Banana Boy poster
Movie

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...

Banana Boy

Jul 1986

Climax poster
Movie

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...

Climax

Oct 1992

Love Drug: Sunday Afternoon poster
Movie

A dangerous disease and fear that befalls a happy gay couple...

Love Drug: Sunday Afternoon

Dec 1991

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