Queer Boys and Girls on the Shinkansen
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Queer Boys and Girls on the Shinkansen is a 2004 Japanese
movie produced by habakari-cinema+records. The English
title is Queer Boys and Girls on the Bullet Train.
or lesbian
in their work. Habakari chose ten filmmakers to make a five-minute work each, developed around a gay or lesbian theme, and compiled the resulting shorts in random order to create this omnibus film. The result is a queer
film, by queer filmmakers, for a queer audience. Each short is its own short story, and the styles range from drama and experimental film and animation.
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Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
movie produced by habakari-cinema+records. The English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
title is Queer Boys and Girls on the Bullet Train.
Description
Queer Boys and Girls on the Shinkansen brings together ten filmmakers and artists who consistently affirm what it means to be gayGay
Gay is a word that refers to a homosexual person, especially a homosexual male. For homosexual women the specific term is "lesbian"....
or lesbian
Lesbian
Lesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females. The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an...
in their work. Habakari chose ten filmmakers to make a five-minute work each, developed around a gay or lesbian theme, and compiled the resulting shorts in random order to create this omnibus film. The result is a queer
Queer
Queer is an umbrella term for sexual minorities that are not heterosexual, heteronormative, or gender-binary. In the context of Western identity politics the term also acts as a label setting queer-identifying people apart from discourse, ideologies, and lifestyles that typify mainstream LGBT ...
film, by queer filmmakers, for a queer audience. Each short is its own short story, and the styles range from drama and experimental film and animation.
Acts
The movie consists of twelve actsAct (theater)
An act is a division or unit of a drama. The number of acts in a production can range from one to five or more, depending on how a writer structures the outline of the story...
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- 00 - Opening Act, "Let's take a trip".
- 01 - "Parallel Contact", written and directed by Hasegawa Kenjiro.
- 02 - "I Hum, and She's Dashing When She Walks", written and directed by iri.
- 03 - "KEY", directed by Kang Yen-Nien.
- 04 - "wrap! rap! -10cs3-", written and directed by Woolala Satoko (うらら さとこ).
- 05 - "JUICY!", written and directed by JohnJ♥.
- 06 - "Techniques for Deadly Blows in 199X", written, directed, and animated by Takasaki Keiichi.
- 07 - "machi27", directed by Hirai Yuko.
- 08 - "I Want You to Kiss Me", written and directed by Imaizumi Koichi.
- 09 - "One Brilliant Moment", directed by Taguchi Hiroki.
- 10 - "Bye-Bye 'Over the Rainbow'", written and directed by Akira the Hustler.
- 11 - Closing Act.