Product Details

• Actors: Misa Shimizu, Takeo Nakahara, Takehiro Murata, Atsushi Fukazawa, Takatoshi Takeda
• Directors: Takehiro Nakajima
• Writers: Takehiro Nakajima
• Producers: Yoshiki Takazawa
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: Japanese
• Subtitles: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Cinevista Inc.
• VHS Release Date: September 15, 1997
• Run Time: 120 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303072119
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #441,895 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, December 14, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Okoge [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Japan's teeming if still underground gay life is explored and celebrated in this pleasant story of the relationship between two gay lovers and the effervescent woman who befriends them. The story revolves around Goh, a young, self-employed man, and Tochi, an older married corporate worker. Their inability to find a suitable location for their lovemaking is solved by Sayoko, a naive young woman who inexplicably finds herself drawn to gay men. She offers her small apartment as a convenient love-pad. Funny but deceptively lighthearted, the film addresses the serious theme of homophobia which is pervading Japan. A note on the title: Okama is Japanese for a rice pot and a slang insult against gays; Okoge is the rice that sticks to the bottom of a pot and is Japanese slang for "fag hag." (Japanese with English subtitles)

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sad but Lively gay film from Japan, January 25, 2000

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Simon Shibata (San Francisco, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Okoge [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I have seen this movie so many times. The strange relationship of a gay couple and a female (okoge) is truely sentimental. This story does reflect the truth of gay males in Japan lively. They are coming out more though. I love the screen of drug queens fought against guys who made fun of them.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Homosexuality in a Japanese context, September 27, 2001

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David Bonesteel (Fresno, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Okoge [VHS] (VHS Tape)

An interesting look at the gay lifestyle in Japan. Satoko is a young woman who befriends a gay couple, Goh and Tochi. She allows them to use her apartment for their trysts so that they will not be discovered by Goh's mother or Tochi's wife. This idyllic arrangement cannot last forever. All three characters go through trying times until the sweet resolution in which Satoko and Goh set up their own little family. Gays face enormous pressure from society in all cultures, but it is particularly interesting to see how this plays out in Japan, a culture which exerts enormous pressure on all of its people to conform.