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
Contents:
- TOFUGU — THE GAY OF THE SAMURAI
- MOVIES | “TABOO,” THE GAY SAMURAI MOVIE
- WERE SAMURAI GAY? OR BISEXUAL?
TOFUGU — THE GAY OF THE SAMURAI
The Gay of the Samurai Remember the popular scene The Last Samurai where Ken Watanabe and Tom Cise make sweet, tenr love? You don’t? Well, perhaps if... * samurais gay *
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.
MOVIES | “TABOO,” THE GAY SAMURAI MOVIE
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. Well, perhaps if the story had been more rooted realy we uld have seen that turns out, pre-morn Japan was exceptnally acceptg, even enuragg, of male homosexualy and bisexualy. I would pot to the Japane versn of Juo-Christian anti-homosexualy beliefs and ll a day.
Japan’s pre-morn society was one that not only tolerated homosexualy and bisexualy, but celebrated and even ialized . How the world did Japan go om celebratg homosexual liftyl to beg nial about LGBT issu even existg? #homosexualy.
WERE SAMURAI GAY? OR BISEXUAL?
How homosexualy was wispread Samurai cultureThe Art of Shunga. However, a key distguishg factor samurai culture was nanshoku, homosexualy among way of adolcent boysIn Japane Shtoism and Buddhism, homosexual and heterosexual sex wasn’t owned upon.
Buddhists had a ncept lled nanshoku, where a young boy entered to a homosexual relatnship wh olr monks.
When the relatnship end, a lifelong bond of iendship would velop between the two former Edo Perd beme known as the goln era for wakashudo, where many thors created some of the most famo homoerotic lerary works like Denbu Monogatari (Story of a Boor) and The Great Mirror of Male Love.