Skip to main content

The Shortest Distance Is Round (Japanese)

By Golu
This is apparently first of the three films so far in the "Shortest Distance" series. I really don't know as of now whether this is supposed to follow a certain story or pattern or general theme. I guess we will find out. Surprisingly for a Japanese film, this has way too many kissing scenes and explicit sex scenes (of course, without showing you the genitalia) and I was quite shocked by whole of it. Despite that, its definitely not a pornographic film.

Haruto is a lonely student without any friends. The new school teacher Aoyama take liking for me and they sort of become unsaid friends. One day when Haruto is sick, Aoyama kisses him shocking Haruto. He complains of sexual harassment and the teacher is expelled. Three years later, Haruto is now Yuki and is a prostitute. He gets into huge debt with his owner and runs away. He meets Aoyama , who is now homeless, who helps him with some money to pay off his debt. But since the money is not enough, Yuki's owner introduces him to another guy who has a huge list of rich gay clients. The older guys gets Yuki into being a gay prostitute and soon enough, he becomes very popular with his clients, leaving another guy very jealous of Yuki's success. To take revenge on him, this guy bites off Yuki's dick so that he cannot continue in this business. The new club owner feels bad for him and gives him a lot of money for his living expenses and gives him address of his financial manager in case he needs help. When the owner suddenly disappears, Yuki/Haruto visit the financial manager, who turns out to be Aoyama. Aoyama tells the secret of all the life journey to Haruto/Yuki and why and how he did all this to win Haruto's love.

There is definitely a story here and it feels that the makers were going for a shock value and a dark theme here. The sex scenes are way too much and too explicit and some of them can be edited. They are not exciting, in fact they are violent-ish. The actors did a good job and I believe actor playing Haruto is a known porn star in Japan. The ending is the most shocking. I mean there are much better easier ways. To win someone's love. This felt more of doing torture to someone. I really doubt anyone acts that way, and for Haruto to forgive Aoyama's actions and be ok with it is even more disturbing. This is not an entertaining or a sweet watch and can get boring with sex scenes. If you are ok with shock value, disturbing storyline, crazy sinister people, go for it. The title comes from the fact that the two lovers eventually meet in a round about fashion after all these incidents and not straight forward, and so they will be together for a long time. Yeah, I am as confused as you are reading this. I would only recommend this with huge reservations. (4/10)
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Shortest Distance is Round 3: Fallen Flowers

By Golu
Continuing with the weird trilogy of "The Shortest Distance", I am so glad that finally I am done with part 3 and won't have to deal with this again in future. Thankfully, as of now the makers have not announced any further parts; which will save all of us on this earth from the embarrassment of watching this in near future. After the first 10 minutes are used in sort of recapping bits of first two parts, the story moves forward. Haruto is now starting to have feelings for Ruka, the mysterious pole dancer from second part. In a fit of rage, Ruka ends up killing the goat man and to save him and Haruto, Shibahara asks them to go underground. Meanwhile Shibahara continues the search for Seiya (the guy who had cut off Haruto's penis). It turns out Seiya is now also taking care of the original club owner from part 1. Both of them were released after they had informed Shibahara of Aoyama's secret location. Shibahara tortures Seiya's boyfriend leading to Seiya killin
5 comments
Read more

One Summer Night (Korean)

By Golu
I really wanted to like this film but for non native speakers, these movie leaves a lot to be understood and the way scenes were unfolding in front of me, I wasn't sure many times what was really going on. The story had potential button getting any back story on any of the characters limited my ability to empathize with any of these actors. Film starts with two North Korea military guys Yong Joon and Jae Sung having sex and they are caught red handed and they run. Three years later we see Yong Joon in Seoul leading a very mundane and poor life. He has a boyfriend Tae-Kyu, who is a weird guy. He is carefree, doesn't do any work and is completely emotional and financially dependent on Young Joon. In fact, even Yong Joon will go to any lengths to protect him , fend for him and taking care of him to the extent of even taking up prostitution. Suddenly one day Jae Sung appears in their life again. His motivation is not clear but it is obvious he wants Yong Joon back in his life, who
Post a Comment
Read more

Ultimate masturbation: Shigoki no yama (Japanese) [The Ultimate Masturbation]

By Golu
I would never know what was the point behind making this film. Was it supposed to be a comedy, cos it wasn't. It wasn't even porn. It was just a silly attempt at making something absolutely senseless and ridiculous. The story, as well as direction is equally shoddy. You could laugh for having seen something so bad, but I wouldn't call that comedy. An old man runs a camp about gay masturbation. The explanation given is that gays masturbate for pleasure unlike straight men, for whom the act is seen as shame or because they can't find a woman. One day a straight man shows up and wants to join the camp for his thesis. After discussion, he is allowed in. Rules include that you can masturbate together, you can masturbate one another, but there is no fellatio or anal sex. Some students of course breaks rule. The teacher then talks about 2 forms of masturbation which gives ultimate pleasure. He shows one without touching and then refuses to talk of the other. Somehow suddenly,
Post a Comment
Read more