If you liked Brokeback Mounta, you will most certaly enjoy Taboo (Gohatto), or, as is popularly known, "The Gay Samurai Movie." Director Nagisa Oshima explor the brewg passn
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For example, there is a pretty famo book the 男色大鑑 Nanshoku Okagami, om the 15th century, (the great mirror of male love) om the very famo poet Ihara Saikaku that spoke about homosexual stori between samurais (and kabi actors and others). From wikipedia's article on Homosexualy Japan:. to the dified system of age-stctured homosexualy known as.
Anyway, the attu toward homosexualy has always been que different om the wtern world. To better unrstand the ncept, I'll add that shudō 衆道 (which is monly translated as homosexualy) is posed by the kanji SHU wh kun readg (kun-yomi) oo.
However, sce then, there have been no laws Japan banng homosexual ’s important to note that, until very recently, sexual acts Japan were not lked to sexual inty. In other words, men who had sex wh men and women who had sex wh women did not nsir themselv gay or lbian. Sexual orientatn was neher polil nor policized Japan until recently, when a gay inty emerged the ntext of HIV/AIDS activism the 1990s.