‘Brokeback Mountain’ the ultimate Japanese ‘chick flick’
‘Brokeback Mountain’ might be ultimate ‘chick flick’ in Japan, says literature expert
March 1: ….”Stories about male-male homosexuality have been extremely popular with Japanese women for decades,” says Rebecca Copeland, Ph.D., an associate professor of Japanese language and literature in Arts & Sciences at Washington University….In Japan, a movie like “Brokeback Mountain” might be the ultimate “chick flick,” suggests Copeland, noting that mainstream Japanese theaters attract huge, mostly female audiences for romantic stories of troubled love between sensitive and impossibly beautiful young men, known as ‘bishonen’.…more…
“Bishonen” is totally mainstream in Japan for women under 30. As reported before here on the 3Yen, “yaoi” manga (stories involving gay romances between pretty young boys is a favorite among women here. Weirder is the US publisher is twisting cowboy love with a Wild West manga they call an “Old West yaoi one-shot: “Stallion”.
See yaoipress.com
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