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Soul Mate (Japanese Series)

By Golu
Is this technically a gay show? Even after getting through the whole thing, that's still kind of tricky to answer. There's never any physical intimacy shown between the two leads, not even a single kiss. What it gives you instead is something that goes way deeper than that. It traces an emotional bond that spans a full decade between two guys who are both dealing with their own baggage, and what they share basically amounts to being soulmates. The story moves across Japan, South Korea, and Berlin. Honestly, whether people want to call what they have a romantic relationship or not doesn't really matter to me. A relationship doesn't need a label like boyfriends attached to it to actually mean something. And closeness doesn't need to be physical to feel genuine. What this show captures is something quieter but way more powerful, a bond rooted in understanding, respect, and just showing up for each other. Across eight episodes, each running 35 to 45 minutes, this is one...
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Double Exposure (Korean)

By Golu
Watching this Korean film was like watching those Japanese Pink films with thin paper plot and 70% sex scenes, just in Korean setting this time. Soft porn for all practical purposes. Every single time I end up watching one of these, I am so pissed at having wasted my time and I wish someone told me to just ignore it. 

The film starts with a photographer dreaming of sex with a guy he doesn't know. Th next day when his assistant is showing him the pictures of her boyfriend Gi-joon, he is surprised to see that the guy is the same who came in his dreams. He somehow convinces assistant to send him for a photoshoot. Gi-joon really doesn't want to go and clearly is very uncomfortable with the idea of being a model but he gives in. The photographer slowly seduces him during the photo shoot and next thing you know is they are kissing and having sex and an affair starts. Gi-joon is completely in love now with photographer but he was just playing I guess and he strongly recommends that he goes to Italy with his girlfriend as originally planned. A few months later when the photographer is walking around, he sees a man who reminds him of Gi-joon and invites him for photography. Of course, kissing and sex soon follows. The assistant returns from Italy and informs him that Gi-joon never went to Italy with her. This confuses the man and we then see him getting pushed down the stairs with many sexual scenes interlacing between photographer, Gi-joon and this new guy who looks exactly like Gi-joon but a much confident version of him.

Firstly, I have no problems with sexual scenes and intimacy but when they are there for the sole purpose of titilation, they make no sense. The scenes here go on and on forever and they ar not even fun to watch. Besides that the plot is so thin that it could been a crispier short film. It feels like the makers are trying to make some sort of statement here, but the message gets totally lost. Were the two guys the same, one shy and other super confident version of him? Its unclear. Simple seen, the film feels like a photographer seducing a "straight" guy and when he falls for him, he just dumps him. But whats the point! The actual purpose of the movie is to provide the viewer with a lot of titillating yet emotionally warm gay sex scenes. And that, it definitely has. (3/10)
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