This is the second vertical AI BL drama I've sat through, and honestly I went in knowing better. I had it on while I was doing cardio at the gym, and what struck me was just how much the plot echoed the last one I watched. Same step brother romance angle, same mystery girlfriend showing up near the end, same extra guy pining after one of the leads. Genuinely the only thing going for it was the runtime, the whole thing wrapped up in forty five minutes flat. The setup kicks off with Finn moving schools because his mom just married into money. He finds out his new step brother Aiden goes to the same place, and he's warned to keep his distance from him. Their first run in at school is rocky, just like you'd expect, but there's this odd pull between them neither can shake off. Finn keeps telling himself not to read into it because Aiden's straight and openly homophobic. Things shift when some kids start bullying Finn and the student council president, Ryan, steps in to ...
OMG!! What did I just see. I know I recently got familiar with a term called 'Pink Film'. I am beginning to wonder if this is something very specific to Japanese films. Because this film was like a Pink film times two. With a paper thin gay love plot, more than half of the film was simulated sex scenes of all kinds of nature which was probably used to titilate audience.
Soichi lives his life on a yacht. He had met young and naiive boy Masao, about a year ago who had run away form home and since then they have bene living as lovers. Masao calls him as Apollo. Soichi also has sexual relations with his step mother, who is younger than him. Apollo has to leave to meet the woman to arrange for money leaving Masao alone on the boat. In his absence, 2 men and a woman come into the watch, sexually assault and are and torture Masao. It turns out that Soichi at some point had raped the girl. Apollo comes in time to save his boyfriend.
Yes, trust me this was the one hour long film, with a paper thing plot. It was almost a soft porn without showing genitals but at the same time nothing was left to imagination. I am scandalized by the thought that its a Japanese film that too from 1984 (almost 35 years old). How did the makers manage to get away with such explicit gay sex scenes and rape scenes and torture scenes is beyond me. I guess there is enough reason to not call this queer cinema but also not call it pure porn at the same time. Soichi (or Apollo) just seemed like a guy with high sexual drive since he apparently sleeps with anyone and everyone, almost raping them, which is evident from how h literally forces himself on the boyfriend the first time. Just stay away form this one. Besides the cute young boy, I was actually a bit ashamed of having watched the film. Period. (2/10)

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