Hatachi no binetsu

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Hatachi no binetsu
Directed by	Ryosuke Hashiguchi
Produced by	Akira Ishigaki
Written by	Ryosuke Hashiguchi
Starring	Yoshihiko Hakamada, Reiko Kataoka, Masashi Endô, Sumiyo Yamada
Music by	Akira Isono Ryuji Murayama Kôhei Shinozaki
Cinematography	Junichi Tozawa
Editing by	Hiroshi Matsuo
Release date(s)	1993
Running time	114 min.
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
IMDb profile

Hatachi No Binetsu (A Touch of Fever, The Slight Fever of a Twenty Year Old) is a Japanese film directed by Ryosuke Hashiguchi, starring Yoshihiko Hakamada and Masashi Endo, released in 1993.

[edit] Plot outline

Yoshihiko and Masashi play Tatsuru and Shinichiro, respectively, both young male hustlers in Japan. The older one, Tatsuru, disconnects himself from his emotions in order to perform his job. The younger Shinichiro, meanwhile, grows uncomfortable with the work once he has fallen in love with Tatsuru. After Shinichiro gets thrown out of his parents' house, he stays at Tatsuru's apartment, and their once casual relationship awkwardly develops into something else.

[edit] Reaction in Japan

Hatachi No Binetsu was a commercial success, surprising given its subject matter. It was nothing less than a breakthrough for real life gay-oriented films in Japan.