Product Details

• Actors: Ren Osugi, Tatsuya Nagatomo, Masayoshi Nogami, Kei Shuto, Akira Yamashina
• Directors: Genji Nakamura
• Format: Color, Full length, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: Japanese
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Water Bearer
• DVD Release Date: September 4, 2001
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B00005NKBV
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #123,752 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Product Description
Nakamura Genji, noted commercial, feature and adult film maker presents his first "Pink Film", a radical look at gay sexuality in Japan. Shinohara, a young bodybuilder, joins a para military sect in northern Japan. His instructor, takizawa, takes a liking to the new recruit. After an early "special" training session the two develop a lasting and loving relationship. Beautiful Mystery was the first gay "adult" film to come out of Japan. Although tame by U.S. standards, it is ground breaking nonetheless.

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A look at Yukio Mishima, April 16, 2005

By	G. Anthony Hecht Jr. "Tony Hecht" (Washington, DC USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This was reputedly Japan's first gay porn film. Director Nakamura Genji chooses an unusual story based upon recent Japanese history. Details of author Yukio Mishima and of his private army, the Shield Society's failed rebellion against the government in 1970 have long been shrouded in mystery and official secrecy in Japan - as Paul Schrader discovered during the making of "Mishima: a life in Four Chapters". This taboo is finally shattered with Beautiful Mystery, a film which only escaped censorship due to its underground status. Beautiful Mystery irreverently parodies the Mishima story, with the charismatic figure of Mitani Makio representing the legendary Shield Society leader in the final week of his life. Young student, Shinohara is fascinated by Makio's private army as they work out in a local gym. Filled with patriotic fervour, he decides to enlist. However, he soon discovers that after long hours of gruelling military training, the soldiers like nothing better than indulging in bed hopping and orgies. Makio eventually decides that the time has come for a coup d'etat, a coup that he and his men realise is doomed to certain failure. (...)