I am a lazy ass.
So, Bathhoue was shit. I've sat through a lot of crap movies, a lot, but I couldn't get through Bathhouse. Granted, I knew it would be bad, I had no expectations, but still. STILL. I just could not get through that movie.
I also re watched Summer Vacation 1999. ...I'm serious when I say when I watched it four (five?) years ago I had no clue that the entire cast was female. It seems so obvious now when I watch it. I find what the director says about his casting decision to be lolz. He didn't want to cast boys because he (she?) felt that it would make the movie more sexually driven. Okay.
The films based on or influenced by comics are, in some ways, a response to the rigidity of Japan's social structure. This does not mean, for example, that women who enjoy going to movies about love between gay or androgynous characters, are any the less heterosexual. It is probably more likely that these films offer an escape from lives in which women traditionally conform to a fixed image. Effeminate male characters appeal to young girls because they seem closer to them than other boys or men. The girls can relate to the effeminate male and his gentle ways, while more masculine men may seem mysterious to them.
Sauce (it's a real interesting read if you have the time)
THE MORE YOU KNOW
I also re watched Summer Vacation 1999. ...I'm serious when I say when I watched it four (five?) years ago I had no clue that the entire cast was female. It seems so obvious now when I watch it. I find what the director says about his casting decision to be lolz. He didn't want to cast boys because he (she?) felt that it would make the movie more sexually driven. Okay.
The films based on or influenced by comics are, in some ways, a response to the rigidity of Japan's social structure. This does not mean, for example, that women who enjoy going to movies about love between gay or androgynous characters, are any the less heterosexual. It is probably more likely that these films offer an escape from lives in which women traditionally conform to a fixed image. Effeminate male characters appeal to young girls because they seem closer to them than other boys or men. The girls can relate to the effeminate male and his gentle ways, while more masculine men may seem mysterious to them.
Sauce (it's a real interesting read if you have the time)
THE MORE YOU KNOW