A math teacher cruising for love in 90s Japan — pink film meets unexpected tenderness.
A junior high school teacher who happens to be a homosexual and falls in love with an extremely handsome young man he meets by chance in Hatten Park. The directorial debut of Ryuji Yamamoto.
Direction
Yamamoto's confident debut control of intimate, risky material.
Production
Hatten Park as authentic queer cruising ground, rarely filmed.
Director
Ryuji Yamamoto
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hatten Park was a legendary cruising spot in 90s Osaka, making this rare documentary-adjacent queer geography.
Ryuji Yamamoto directed himself opposite Motomasa Ishii, blurring autobiography and fiction in true pink film tradition.
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