Oh man, I can't wait to read your meta! I want to hear ALL your thoughts about this movie! (And I hope eventually a DVD turns up in a shop near me so I can own it!)
It's weird, my OTHER favorite queer romance movie ALSO involves a romance between a Japanese person and a Korean person. (Though in the other one, the Japanese guy is a cute little wannabe rockabilly, and the Korean trans girl... okay honestly she doesn't have much character asides from surviving the zombie apocalypse, but still, I love the movie anyway.) Is that, like, a forbidden love across opression trope or something, or have I just randomly stumbled on two movies with the same thing? (Though I guess Hideko wasn't Japanese, her great-uncle was Korean and just sold everything out to be on the "winning team"? That was one part of the movie I wasn't fully clear on--there was a LOT going on in that plot!)
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It's weird, my OTHER favorite queer romance movie ALSO involves a romance between a Japanese person and a Korean person. (Though in the other one, the Japanese guy is a cute little wannabe rockabilly, and the Korean trans girl... okay honestly she doesn't have much character asides from surviving the zombie apocalypse, but still, I love the movie anyway.) Is that, like, a forbidden love across opression trope or something, or have I just randomly stumbled on two movies with the same thing? (Though I guess Hideko wasn't Japanese, her great-uncle was Korean and just sold everything out to be on the "winning team"? That was one part of the movie I wasn't fully clear on--there was a LOT going on in that plot!)
--Rogan