{"id":604600,"date":"2024-01-13T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-a-maudlin-gay-melodrama-from-japan\/"},"modified":"2024-01-13T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T17:30:00","slug":"watch-a-maudlin-gay-melodrama-from-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-maudlin-gay-melodrama-from-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch A Maudlin Gay Melodrama From Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3c5e67309b0\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3c5e67309b0\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-maudlin-gay-melodrama-from-japan\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Maudlin_Gay_Melodrama_From_Japan%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online A Maudlin Gay Melodrama From Japan&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-maudlin-gay-melodrama-from-japan\/#%E2%80%9CA_Maudlin_Gay_Melodrama_From_Japan%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;A Maudlin Gay Melodrama From Japan&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Maudlin_Gay_Melodrama_From_Japan%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online A Maudlin Gay Melodrama From Japan&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CA_Maudlin_Gay_Melodrama_From_Japan%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;A Maudlin Gay Melodrama From Japan&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The love of self and the love of others are deeply intertwined, according to everyone from ancient philosophers to \u201cDrag Race\u201d host Ru Paul. We must be anchored in a solid space of self-love in order to let someone else into our lives. On its surface, this is the key tenet of Daishi Matsunaga\u2019s \u201cEgoist\u201d (ergo its title). But that sentiment serves instead to highlight how this maudlin Japanese drama about a gay man in his 30s coping with love and loss, rarely moves beyond the readymade platitudes that litter its well-meaning narrative. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Based on the late Makoto Takayama\u2019s autobiographical novel of the same name, \u201cEgoist\u201d follows Sait\u00f4 K\u00f4suke (Ryohei Suzuki), a magazine editor whose picture-perfect life includes an immaculately designed condo, a quick-paced job surrounded by fashion and photography, a closet full of beautiful designer clothes and a coterie of gay male friends with whom he handily gets along. And yet, from early in the film, it\u2019s clear there\u2019s a pall over his life. The loss of his mother many years ago still haunts him. The lack of a love life confounds him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    So he hires a young hot personal trainer, Nakamura Ry\u00fbta (Hio Miyazawa). Their chemistry is palpable from their first meeting, and the romance, however furtive it must remain (the better to keep Ry\u00fbta\u2019s mother in the dark about their relationship), is endearing. Soon, as a cloying montage telegraphs, their budding relationship is in full bloom, with stylish and well-to-do K\u00f4suke taking the young Ry\u00fbta almost under his wing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But in the first of many seemingly insurmountable (but soon enough dispensed with) obstacles that will come their way, Ry\u00fbta skittishly shares a secret about his life he worries his lover won\u2019t be able to overcome. The secret is best left unspoiled. But it forces both halves of the couple to reassess what it is they want out of life and out of each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The weight of Ry\u00fbta\u2019s confession is shot with a claustrophobically-placed hand-held camera that fussily detracts from the emotion either actor would be capable of conjuring. Matsunaga stages this most pivotal of early scenes with a clumsiness that makes all that follows harder to buy into. For try as Suzuki and Miyazawa do to breathe life into their respective characters, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a> and cinematography conspire constantly to make these two young men look and feel two-dimensional, capable only of bright smiles or dour groans, with little in between. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Flirting with melodrama, Matsunaga never quite finds the right tonal balance between the earnestness of a sun-dappled romance he sketches and the more depressing story about grief he ends up crafting \u2014 especially once K\u00f4suke gets to meet Ry\u00fbta\u2019s mother (Yuko Nakamura) and takes a liking to her. Coming after such sentimental plot trappings, the film\u2019s final third-act surprise remains mostly unearned. That\u2019s because so much of the dramatic tension that fuels K\u00f4suke and Ry\u00fbta\u2019s love story remains quite plastic, each revelation and complication so easily ironed out that its narrative and emotional stakes feel almost incidental. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    And so, while the film hints at some thorny themes around living openly in Japan as a gay man and how grief curdles inside you and colors your world, \u201cEgoist\u201d remains a rather sedate affair. The film suffers from a self-serious tone it breaks only during scenes with K\u00f4suke\u2019s friends, whose brief conversations open up the world of \u201cEgoist\u201d in delightfully welcome ways \u2014 only to then be relegated to minor moments in favor of awkward exchanges between boyfriends, and later still between the two men and Ry\u00fbta\u2019s mother. (The sex scenes, of which \u201cEgoist\u201d boasts a few, are so exactingly shot as to feel rather listless, even when they\u2019re supposed to denote a hungered kind of desire Matsunaga\u2019s camera never quite captures.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    With its languid pace and soap-opera-adjacent plot twists, Matsunaga\u2019s film ends up playing like a well-intentioned tragic love story meant to tug at our heartstrings. But the film ties its many threads together so neatly that, like K\u00f4suke\u2019s apartment, its stylish arrangement only makes it feel that much colder.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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