#Manji 1964

[celluloidrainbow]

まんじ | MANJI (1964) dir. Yasuzō Masumura Sonoko, a bored housewife entering middle age, met a young girl, Mitsuko, at a private school of art. Sonoko paints a portrait of her, and when she invite Mitsuko at her house, the two end up locked in a passionate embrace. Unable to think rationally about what she wants, Sonoko becomes steadily more obsessed with her new lover. (link in title)

[wlwmoviebracket]

round 2 (12/64)

[junipercastor]

manji was very good but i always find myself falling for the admirer rather than the muse in stories like this u__u sonoko was just so sincerely earnest in her affections that i couldn't help but like her

[falsebooles123]

An Incredible Long Couple of Weeks. Diary of a Big Ole Gay.

Hey Whores, this is going to be a really long post because I may not have the energy to finish this this week.

So I guess I haven't done one of these in about two weeks and a lot of that is me being very busy. Last week of March I was working on like fifteen million different articles and videos and other content creation thingies and the first week of April literally started with my co-worker HAVING A MENTAL BREAK AND LEAVING TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LITERAL COUNTRY.

(i'm posting a funny GIF but I'm actually kinda pissed)

so instead of having a lot of great help to ease into running a full ass kitchen by myself doing 70 heads a day. I was doing this with exactly one other person doing the bare minimum to help me. It was a lot of hard work, and of course it went great. But I was extremly exhausted.

I also didn't watch that many queer films because of it.

but lets get into it.

Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) dir. John Huston

OK so I don't remember a lot about any of these films because I watched this one in particular, *checks notes* the 27th of last month. Yeah theres a reason why theres no date on this one.

So this one I think is based on a book or something and features Marlon Brando being a CLOSET HOMOSEXUAL. oh also he stays right in that closet.

(god this gif is something else. so creepy)

Hes like yeah I'm going to spend this entire movie staring at this naked guys ass, (yeah I'm not going to explain the plot your'll either love this movie or hate it but you can't say it doesn't have a plot), but I ain't going to act on it. I'm just going to fight with my beautiful neglected wife who beats my ass for beating her horse.

See the relationship is super toxic but its liz taylor and Marlon Brando so its also the hottest thing ever.

anyway lot of repressed homos in the background of the entire rest of the plot. One of the more fun dramas I watched cause it was MESSY!

Flesh (1968) dir. Paul Morrissey

ok so Flesh is one of those weird cineme verite movies that Morrissey made and it is very artsy and very gay but there isn't actually any guy on guy stuff. The main actor spends most of his time naked, and some of that is like eroticized but also its kinda meant to desexualize nudity. Or rather the film is using casual nudity as a way to lampshade the way we objectify people because after we see this long scene were hes just laying in bed with his dick out (relatable), we get a 5 minutes scene of him starting his day buck ass naked feeding his 1 year old real daughter a muffin. they actually use that as one of the posters

so like yeah hes naked but hes clearly not erotised in that moment in fact even though the main character is a hustler he never actually has gay sex on screen. His only client is a man who wants to draw him for like classical sculpture. Hes someone whose literally objectified scene for his body and not as a living person.

OMFG am I a film critic or something.

anyway this is another pretty cool film and especially something gay people should watch even through there isn't that much PDA.

Funeral Parade of Roses (1969) dir. Toshio Matsumoto

ok first look at this iconic photo.

Pretty this follows a bunch of transwoman in like Tokyo just honestly vibing and being faggot punks. We love, we stan, we support.

theres a lot to enjoy about this film and honestly just iconic trans woman you need to watch this. oh also all these ladies are straight so theres no gay kissing.

My Hustler (1966) dir. Andy Warhol, Chuck Wein

NOTE: This is a clip from the 1961 SPORTS THRILLER "The Hustler" but also this is pretty good dupe to the experience of My Hustler

Yeah so My Hustler is the story of a rich gay bringing a gay whore for his vacation and then having his fag hag friend and then the hustler friend show up and they all get in to this contest about whos going to fuck him. So I guess more objectification of men through the queer lens. Noone actually fucks him and its a lot of naturalistic dialogue. Its warhol you get it.

The Children's Hour (1961) dir. William Wyler

Ok so Childrens Hour is about Audrey Hepburn and her GAL PAL Shirley McClaine who run a school together. They are in fact just roommates but doesn't stop snot nose little brats from spreading rumors that like she totally saw Mrs. Hepburn drowning in pussy. So yeah they have there lives ruined and there not even dykes da fuck. Its very Tea and Sympathy in that regard about how homophobia hurts those that arn't even faggots. Y'know the innocent. /s

except it turns out that Shirley McClaine is in fact like a totally LESBIAN HAROLD. and this was the push she needed to admit how fucking gay she is for audrey hepburn, (which like we get it girl it audrey), oh and then she fucking kills herself. Thanks I hate it.

The movie up to that points pretty good.

The Leather Boys (1964) dir. Sidney J. Furie

ok so this is another British New Wave movie and it manly follows this newly married couple. And like the wife Dot, is literally the worst fucking person. She spends all her money on her hair which 1. He doens't like and 2. Doesn't even look good on her. She doesn't have a job and she doesn't keep the house. And then she won't move into his mom's house after his dad fucking dies and his mom literally can't take care of herself which like sorry girl I get if you don't like your mother-in-law but um kinda a consequence of marrying someone at some point you kinda have to deal with there parents getting old and dying. Oh also shes cheating on him. SPOILERS.

Anyway so they spend most of the time seperated while this guy sleeps with his best friend.... in like the same bed. hahaha not like in a gay way that would be ..... gay.

Also I'm totally sure his best friend isn't like a faggot or something.

Yeah, basically this guy was sleeping next to a gay guy the whole time and everytime his friend was like "omg babe lets ditch your looser wife, (can confirm she sucks), and move to america together" that he meant it in like a gay way.

and so the dude just fucking leaves. Honestly I would try sucking dick just once if I was him. You guys have a great relationship and your wifes a bitch.

Advise & Consent (1962) dir. Otto Preminger

The Best Man (1964) dir. Franklin J. Schaffner

just going to throw these together. Basically there both about some future were the president wants to nominate some dude and people are like ew no. also some random other person is getting blackmailed for being a faggot in the war. Yeah both of these movies have like the same exact plot.

I like The Best Man a little bit more but there both kinda awful. Also Betty White is in the first one and SHES A SENATOR. yaaaas girl.

Manji (1964) dir. Yasuzo Masumura

THESE LESBIANS ARE TOXIC.

Like don't get me wrong they kiss, they suck, they fuck. Lot of Women absolutely just being the most, this is the most lesbian thing I've seen.

Oh also eventually they start a death cult it goes to some really weird places. Also theres like three remakes.

anyway whores, sorry that its taking so long for me to post this diary update. I'm going to draft the next post and try to get it out by the end of the month. Thanks love you.

[shihlun]

Yasuzo Masumura

- Manji

1964

[roseillith]

MANJI (1964) dir. YASUZō MASUMURA

[to-be-loved-by-death]

My current sapphic Japanese cinema masterlist:

Blue (2002) - youtube

Typhoon Club (1987) - youtube

The Cherry Orchard (1990) - youtube

The Cherry Orchard: Blossoming (2008) - youtube

Helter Skelter (2012)

Love Exposure (2007) - internet archive

Tag (2015)

Black Lizard (1968) - youtube

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021)

Antiporno (2016)

Tokyo Decadence (1992)

Summer Vacation 1999 (1989)

Dream Girls (1994) - youtube

Manji (1964) - internet archive

With Beauty and Sorrow (1965)

Girls of the Night (1961)

A Bride for Rip van Winkle (2016) - youtube

Tomie: Forbidden Fruit (2002) - youtube

Topless (2008)

Maria Watches Over Us (2010)

Sailor Uniforms: Lily Lovers (1983)

The Scent of Pheasant’s Eye (1935)

Afternoon Breeze (1980) - youtube

Kakera: A Piece of Our Life (2009)

The Forest of Love (2019) - netflix

Keiko (1979)

The Story of Pupu (1998) - youtube

Love/Juice (2000) - youtube

Sayonara (2018)

The Adolescence of Utena (1999) - internet archive

Night’s Tightrope (2016)

Queer Japan (2019)

Angel in September (1994)

[cinematic-explorations]

Manji (1964)

“ Because Manji came out in Japan in 1964. And It. Is. Crazy. “

“Release this weird gay movie on Criterion, you cowards!”

(via Thirsty Classics: "Manji" Is the Most | Autostraddle)

[number1milfloislover]

Manji, 1964.

[bimbomoviebash]

Manji, 1964

[disappointingyet]

Manji

Director Yasuzô Masumura Stars Kyôko Kishida, Ayako Wakao, Eiji Funakoshi Japan 1964 Language Japanese (with English subtitles) 1hr 31mins Colour

Legendary Japanese pervfest 

Manji is a film that has been remade four times – there’s clearly something about this story that is appealing to Japanese audiences.

At least in this version, the first, Manji is a melodrama. As in, the characters’ desires, actions and reactions are all extreme. It also feels like a precursor of sorts to the Hollywood erotic thrillers of the late 1980s and early ‘90s. And anticipates aspects of Park Chan-wook’s terrific The Handmaiden.

The framing device is a young woman, Sonoko (Kyôko Kishida), recounting to an older man the tumultuous events of the previous year. Those start with Sonoko, bourgeois, married, in a life drawing class at art school. The teacher points out she’s not drawn the face of the model. That almost instantly escalates to an accusation that she’s got the hots for Mitsuko (Kyôko Kishida). (There’s later an explanation for this sudden leap in logic, but it’s not out of keeping with how things generally work in this film.)

Sonoko and Mitsuko meet up to supposedly discuss how to dispel the rumours, but pretty soon Sonoko is demanding that Mitsuko takes her clothes off. The accusations of a lesbian affair thus lead swiftly to that affair actually taking place. 

Sonoko’s actions continue to be somewhat unhinged. Her rather dim husband (Eiji Funakoshi) knows that something is going on but she keeps just about convincing him that all is fine. Mitsuko, meanwhile, turns out to be both a schemer and a death-fetishist. 

There are twists, there is generally bizarre behaviour and lots of sexual obsession.

I’m not going to pretend to understand what this all meant in 1960s Japan, other than having seen some fairly out-there films made there at the time. I don’t think I've seen a Yasuzô Masumura movie before though. 

I think if you accept that Manji is bonkers, and accept the film’s own internal logic, then it’s tremendously enjoyable.  I saw Manji at the 2024 London Film Festival

[dear-indies]

Hello Cat 🐱 + Mouse 🐭!! Can I please ask for some faceclaims who can play Naomi Scott’s mother and father, please? Thank you so much in advance!!! <3 :)

Gujarati parent:

Sanjay Goradia (1957) Gujarati Indian.

Darshan Jariwala (1958) Gujarati Indian.

Nitin Ganatra (1967) Gujarati Indian.

Rizwan Manji (1974) Gujarati Indian.

White parent:

Orla Brady (1961)

Marisa Tomei (1964)

Famke Janssen (1964)

Julia Louis-Dreyfus (1965)

Paget Brewster (1969)

Constance Zimmer (1970)

Bellamy Young (1970)

Melissa McCarthy (1970)

Carla Gugino (1971)

Hey! @helpersofindie's replied to your ask HERE but here are some additional suggestions, I could only find Gujarati actors for her father since a lot of the actresses I found were light.

[obi-troll-kenobi]

Films from the pride set: Different from the others (1919). Morocco (1930) Queen Christina (1935) Glen or glenda (1953) Some like it hot (1959) Ben hur (1959) Madchen in uniform (1958) The children's hour (1963) Winter kept us warm (1965) Manji (1964)

Thank you! :)

(it’s about this post)

[shihlun]

Yasuzo Masumura

- Manji

1964

[roseillith]

MANJI (1964) dir. YASUZō MASUMURA

[paddyfitz]

happy pride