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Political activist and transvestite. He was gay bar owner, founder of gay magazines ("The Gay" and "The Ken"), and producer of early gay pink film.
A young executive has a really bad night after an encounter with a crazed bisexual wannabe yakuza and his horny girlfriend.
A look at sex in Japan, that covers underground gay life, transvestites, sex change operations, tattoos, and S&M. What does it mean to live an individualistic life in the modern age? By capturing the seemingly bizarre customs of men in drag and women in men's clothing seen on the streets, and examining the world of sexual perversion in an attempt to unravel the mysteries of our homogenized modern society, we explore whether it represents the pinnacle of pleasure, or a world of endless hell.
A newspaper reporter takes pictures of famous people cheating on their wives in his secret business, and uses them to blackmail them for a lot of money. He rents an apartment in Tokyo with the money and keeps a mistress. One day, the man's wife is raped while alone at home. The wife cannot tell her husband about it. The man goes to a university professor as usual to ask for money, but is confronted with a photo of his wife being raped. If he doesn't want this to be spread to the world, he should never do this again. Meanwhile, the wife, feeling lonely because her husband doesn't pay her attention, accepts the rapist two or three times, and eventually they fall in love with each other...
The story of a popular singer who finds love, the journalist who exposes him, the hysterical reactions of his Christian parents, his fear that he has caught AIDS and his supportive gay friends. The film is a strong indictment of the negative effect Christianity has had on Japanese society.
A film adaptation (funded by Ken Togo) based on an expose book by a person involved in the Japanese entertainment industry of the time. The book describes among other things the drug-fueled parties, orgies of the entertainment business and what some celebrities like Johnny Kitagawa among others were allegedly up to in their free time. Basically giving an open-book about the secrets of the entertainment-world. The film adapts and portrays some of the shocking scenes of this book, focussing more on the gay-aspect of the expose.
Gay pinku distributed by ENK