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| Product DescriptionBOYS LOVE begins as conservative young magazine editor Akira Mamiya (Kotani Yoshikazu) sets out to profile teen model Kisaragi Noeru (Saito Takumi). Mamiya becomes taken with the young man while viewing his paintings. The two continue their interview over dinner and dinner leads to an encounter in a restroom stall. A relationship develops between the usually straight-laced Mamiya and irresponsible pretty-boy Noeru. But it's a relationship fraught with peril. Jealous schoolmates too much booze random men and the demands of career conspire to test whether a BOYS LOVE can survive. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/GAY & LESBIAN UPC: 667443583141 Manufacturer No: WOL4543D - Actors: Kotani Yoshikazu, Saito Takumi, Hiroya Matsumoto
- Director: Kohtaro Terauchi
- Audience Rating: Unrated
- Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
- Language (Original Language): Japanese
- Language (Subtitled): English
- Region Code: 1
- Release Date: 2008-03-18
- Running Time: 83 minutes
- Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Customer ReviewsReviewed on 2008-05-22  
good yet bad
when i came across this movie, i could not wait to see it.
i patiently waited two months and finally bought it.
boy was i upset!!
the movie starts nice and simple, soon you get into it and begin to cope with the characters, then, at the end you are left with a bitter sweet feeling.
i would watch this movie only if i were in a depressing mood! |  | Reviewed on 2008-05-09
Simple, Beautiful Film
On the surface of things, Boys Love might be seem like a simple (perhaps even clichéd) romance that traipses along the lines of vague vulgarity, but by the end you cannot help but feel a certain attachment to its protagonists.
In using the term 'simple', I refer to the general plot of the film, but there are concepts and sequences within the story that cut just a bit deeper than your average misty-eyed effeminate male love story. In such a manner, there are numerous quotes from literature and notable speakers threaded silently throughout, usually as conclusions to pivotal scenes, which encompass many of the emotional boundaries in which the characters of Boys Love entwine - from innocence to promiscuity, tenderness to maddening jealousy. Some of the quotes seem obvious, but many will stir about your sense of reasoning and curiosity.
For the most part, Boys Love is indeed rather predictable. However, the compelling and genuine performances of leads Saito Takumi and Kotani Yoshikazu result in a nevertheless touching and irresistibly engrossing experience - all culminating into an unexpectedly dark and lingering final chapter.
Boys Love isn't a movie to be examined and picked apart, but instead, a movie to be felt, absorbed. There's a lot of heart here, you just have to be willing to look for it. | | Reviewed on 2008-04-24
Awful
This movie was stunningly bad. I watched it because someone I know told me it was great and depressing, but it was neither. By the time the dramatic conclusion came, I couldn't take ANY of it seriously. From the gawky, unattractive cast (Chidori especially, what a creepy looking little dweeb) to the ham-fisted acting and horrible soundtrack, there was NOTHING to like about this movie. I wonder if the other version was better. | | Reviewed on 2008-04-18
Great eye candy, but not much else
Quite popular in its home country of Japan, "Boys Love" (2006) has just recently been released in a subtitled DVD in the US.
The film tells the story of Mamiya, a 20-something journalist, who is assigned to do a profile on popular teen model (and amateur artist) Kisaragi Noeru. Mature for his years, Noeru takes control of their meeting, and later of Mamiya himself, as he introduces the young journalist to his first experience with man-to-man sex. Visiting Noeru a few days later, Mamiya learns that Noeru is more than a bit of a slut, and seems incapable of settling down with one person or keeping his word to anyone, including his best friend Chidori, who has an unrequitted crush on Noeru. After Noelru picks the wrong person to go home with, and is the victim of a gaybashing, Mamiya learns from him why he is leery of forming a close relationship with other. amd pledges to be there for him, which turns Chidori into a jealous rage.
It's actually a simplistic story, stretched out to fill almost an hour and a half. Though the film is chock full of great eye candy, the acting is a bit "over the top" and tedious at times. I could also have done without the "proverbs" used by the director to transition from one scene to another, which I found to be anmoying after a while. The ending seemed contrived and hardly logical, as well as unnecessarily depressing. I would rate it four out of five stars for the eye candy, but only two for everything else, so let's call it an average of three stars out of five. | | Reviewed on 2008-03-31
Classy
This is is a Japanese Picture This production. I could tell from the very beginning that I was going to like this feature as there was an air of class. Again, like many of the foreign movies I have seen and reviewed recently, this one can be added to the list of countries. As I repeated before it is not just the gay subject what make these movies fascinating to me, but the cultures and the people that are being portrayed as well.
This is again another tragic story, a love triangle. There is three main characters: Noel, Mamiya, and Chirodi. Noel and Chirodi are high school students. Noel is a famous beautiful model and painter. Chirodi is the nerd, shy, intelligent boy who is secretly in love with Noel. They are both gay. Mamiya (that is his last name) is an editor in a magazine who is doing a column on Noel.
The first interview between Mamiya and Noel includes an expensive dinner in a fancy restaurant, and the seduction by Noel to Mamiya in the bathroom. Mamiya is shocked and gets extremely angry refusing to continue on this story, telling his boss the following day.
As the days go by, Mamiya starts to question his sexuality and the experience in the bathroom. He goes back to Noel's place to find him in bed with another man. Mamiya makes a pact with Noel to stop whoring himself and the friendship and love develops between the two of them.
Chirodi becomes enraged with Noel's new found love and tells him how he feels about him. Noel goes on a drinking rampage and gets raped and beaten on the streets. Mamiya reads it on the paper and comes to his friend aid, is then that he realizes that he is in love with Noel. Chirodi catches both of them in the bedroom and tells his employer of his affair. Mamiya looses his job but he is happy. He finds a new job in Noel's model agency.
The story ends tragically when Chirodi surprises both of them and stabs Noel with a knife. The final scene shows Mamiya taking his lover to an ocean spot which is one of Noel's painting. This painting has something to do with a boy from his childhood who he was in love with but dies.
There are quotations throughout the movie from famous people in history dealing with love, they are nice and inspirational, adding class to the movie.
I like this movie, it has class. It focus on love between men. There are a few male nude scene, not frontal. There was never sex between Mamiya and Noel nor Chirodi, just the love triangle. There is featurette on the making of the movie, interviews of the directors and actors. Saito Takumi (Noel) is extremely handsome, the other young actors are very boyish in their looks. They all stated that they are not gay. I am not sure the director is gay.
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