Matsunaga Daishi’s Egoist is a love duet full of intimate gestures. “I hated my hometown so much, I fled it, at 18, for Tokyo,” confesses Kosuke (Suzuki Ryohei), in voiceover. “For me, clothes are armor.” Though the gay fashion magazine editor, who lost his mother at age 14, seems much more at home in the more socially liberal Tokyo, he still hides behind his sharp style and his money. That is, until he meets Ryuta (Miyazawa Hio), a fitness trainer to whom he feels an immediate bond. And through these two young men from decidedly different backgrounds, Matsunaga’s film considers how class, capitalism, and core wounds collide, infect, and also inspire the heart’s most tender desires.
It isn’t long after Kosuke starts training with Ryuta that the two become romantically linked. Theirs is a carnal connection that deepens and complicates as they learn more about each other. In some ways,...
It isn’t long after Kosuke starts training with Ryuta that the two become romantically linked. Theirs is a carnal connection that deepens and complicates as they learn more about each other. In some ways,...
- 4/13/2024
- by Greg Nussen
- Slant Magazine
The 66th edition of the Blue Ribbon Awards, presented by the Association of Tokyo Film Journalists, has announced its winners on January 24, 2024. The nominees are selected from movies released in 2023. The trifecta wins for “Godzilla Minus One” come as no surprise, sweeping the Best Film, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress categories. Yuya Ishii picks up the Best Director award for both his movies “The Moon” and “Masked Hearts”.
Best Film
Masked Hearts
Ichiko
Egoist
Monster
The Dry Spell
Godzilla Minus One
Mom, Is That You?!
(Ab)normal Desire
The Moon
One Last Bloom
Perfect Days
Bad Lands
September 1923
Do Unto Others
As Long as We Both Shall Live
Best Director
Yuya Ishii – The Moon, Masked Hearts
Hirokazu Koreeda – Monster
Daishi Matsunaga – Egoist
Takashi Yamazaki – Godzilla Minus One
Yoji Yamada – Mom, Is That You?!
Best Actor
Goro Inagaki – (Ab)normal Desire
Ryunosuke Kamiki – Godzilla Minus One, We're Broke, My Lord!
Best Film
Masked Hearts
Ichiko
Egoist
Monster
The Dry Spell
Godzilla Minus One
Mom, Is That You?!
(Ab)normal Desire
The Moon
One Last Bloom
Perfect Days
Bad Lands
September 1923
Do Unto Others
As Long as We Both Shall Live
Best Director
Yuya Ishii – The Moon, Masked Hearts
Hirokazu Koreeda – Monster
Daishi Matsunaga – Egoist
Takashi Yamazaki – Godzilla Minus One
Yoji Yamada – Mom, Is That You?!
Best Actor
Goro Inagaki – (Ab)normal Desire
Ryunosuke Kamiki – Godzilla Minus One, We're Broke, My Lord!
- 1/25/2024
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
The official website for Tomoyuki Takimoto‘s Soup Opera has been updated with a new full trailer. The film is based on a book by Sawako Agawa of the same title and stars Maki Sakai (40) in her first lead role since announcing her marriage to 28-year-old photographer Shin Suzuki late last year.
Sakai plays Rui, a 35-year-old single woman forced to live alone after the aunt who raised her suddenly decides to get married and move out. Through an unexpected set of circumstances, she winds up becoming roommates with an aging ladies’ man named Tony (Tatsuya Fuji) and a timid younger man named Kosuke (Takahiro Nishijima of the pop group Aaa). Mariko Kaga, Kimiko Yo, and Masato Hagiwara also star.
Prénom-h will be releasing “Soup Opera” in Japan on October 2, 2010.
Sakai plays Rui, a 35-year-old single woman forced to live alone after the aunt who raised her suddenly decides to get married and move out. Through an unexpected set of circumstances, she winds up becoming roommates with an aging ladies’ man named Tony (Tatsuya Fuji) and a timid younger man named Kosuke (Takahiro Nishijima of the pop group Aaa). Mariko Kaga, Kimiko Yo, and Masato Hagiwara also star.
Prénom-h will be releasing “Soup Opera” in Japan on October 2, 2010.
- 8/11/2010
- Nippon Cinema
The official website for Tomoyuki Takimoto‘s Soup Opera has been updated with a new full trailer. The film is based on a book by Sawako Agawa of the same title and stars Maki Sakai (40) in her first lead role since announcing her marriage to 28-year-old photographer Shin Suzuki late last year.
Sakai plays Rui, a 35-year-old single woman forced to live alone after the aunt who raised her suddenly decides to get married and move out. Through an unexpected set of circumstances, she winds up becoming roommates with an aging ladies’ man named Tony (Tatsuya Fuji) and a timid younger man named Kosuke (Takahiro Nishijima of the pop group Aaa). Mariko Kaga, Kimiko Yo, and Masato Hagiwara also star.
Prénom-h will be releasing “Soup Opera” in Japan on October 2, 2010.
Sakai plays Rui, a 35-year-old single woman forced to live alone after the aunt who raised her suddenly decides to get married and move out. Through an unexpected set of circumstances, she winds up becoming roommates with an aging ladies’ man named Tony (Tatsuya Fuji) and a timid younger man named Kosuke (Takahiro Nishijima of the pop group Aaa). Mariko Kaga, Kimiko Yo, and Masato Hagiwara also star.
Prénom-h will be releasing “Soup Opera” in Japan on October 2, 2010.
- 8/11/2010
- Nippon Cinema
Some details and a teaser trailer were finally released today for Tomoyuki Takimoto‘s Soup Opera, months after its official site was first launched. The film is based on a book by Sawako Agawa of the same title and stars Maki Sakai (40) in her first lead role since announcing her marriage to 28-year-old photographer Shin Suzuki late last year.
Sakai plays Rui, a 35-year-old single woman forced to live alone after the aunt who raised her suddenly decides to get married and move out. Through an unexpected set of circumstances, she winds up becoming roommates with an aging ladies’ man named Tony (Tatsuya Fuji) and a timid younger man named Kosuke (Takahiro Nishijima of the pop group Aaa). Mariko Kaga, Kimiko Yo, and Masato Hagiwara also star.
Prénom-h will be releasing “Soup Opera” in Japan sometime this fall.
Sources: Cinema Today, Official website...
Sakai plays Rui, a 35-year-old single woman forced to live alone after the aunt who raised her suddenly decides to get married and move out. Through an unexpected set of circumstances, she winds up becoming roommates with an aging ladies’ man named Tony (Tatsuya Fuji) and a timid younger man named Kosuke (Takahiro Nishijima of the pop group Aaa). Mariko Kaga, Kimiko Yo, and Masato Hagiwara also star.
Prénom-h will be releasing “Soup Opera” in Japan sometime this fall.
Sources: Cinema Today, Official website...
- 5/22/2010
- Nippon Cinema
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