Hatsu-koi - First Love

November 23, 2008

See the story and theese image at: www.asiangayfilms.com/japan/hatsu-koi-first-love/

Another Japanese Gay Film that was released in 2007. Take a look at the synopsis:

Tadashi, in his last year of high school, is secretly in love with his classmate, Kota. But he dares not tell him about it. On summer day, he was picked on by his classmates calling him fag, which shooed Kota away from him.

Deeply hurt and depressed, Tadashi spotted on a train a gay couple - Hiroki and Shinji, who were chatting so happily that he followed the two men before he knew it…

No matter how old you are, no matter how many times you experience it, the beginning of love is always like the first one. Interwoven with such familiar issues as coming out, and gay marriage, and also sprinkled with both love making and hard-core sex, “Hatsu-Koi” is a growing up story of a not-so-sure-yet-but-so-much-desired gay teen that takes place in Tokyo.

“Hatsu-Koi” means “First Love ” in Japanese.

Trailer (with English Sub)

Reviews:

No matter the age, falling in love remains always a first time. But the very first time, this shows Hatsu-koi realistically in a fresh and unpretentious way, is especially full of traps and insecurities and might imprint the pattern for life: it is alike exiting and dangerous. The adventures of young Tadashi is of global validity, touching themes like mobbing, homo marriage and different shades of sexual behaviour, with the specific taste of today’s Japanese environment young gay people find themselves in.
Wieland Speck, director of Panorama, Berlin International Film Festival

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