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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- 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:.
MOVIES | “TABOO,” THE GAY SAMURAI MOVIE
to the dified system of age-stctured homosexualy known as.
Anyway, the attu toward homosexualy has always been que different om the wtern world.
WERE SAMURAI GAY? OR BISEXUAL?
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.