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Yeah, I love that song too. I hang around the credits just so I can listen to it. Love when the bass beat kicks in after that breathy vocal intro.

Seems to me if I saw it online, then it's available.

Excellent and sad. Misinterpretations, white lies, accidents, bullying, fear, infatuation, self-destructiveness, lack of communication; the standard facets of a closeted schoolboy's average day.

Wow, it's so nice that you have gone through and replied to all my comments. I didn't expect that and very much appreciate it. It's nice to hear back from the film maker and know your thoughts are being considered. Thank you.

Now I feel bad for the negative stuff I wrote above. lol But I'm no professional critic and those are just my off-the-cuff, initial reactionary feelings about the movie. I'm very glad I watched it even though I didn't find it as high-quality as your other films.

Keep making movies and I will keep watching, and you will get better and better!

And I'll be watching. This one was damn good...there is of course always room for improvement, but I can't think of anything about this film that didn't seem spot-on to me.

First time I watched this more than a year ago I sobbed off and on again throughout the entire second half, with intermittent choking-up moments during the first half. When the Chief found himself having feelings for the Queen that he did not want to have, and cuddled up to the sleeping King with tears in his eyes, I broke.

I'll just disagree, and leavei it at that. To me, the King/Chief relationship is the main one here because it is the relationship around which and upon which the entire rest of the movie is built. The straight one certainly gets more sex-time onscreen, unfortunately, but that's because the King/Chief thing is already well-established and the Queen/Chief is just beginning. But there are constant scenes of the King/Chief throughout the movie, right up until the end, and their complicated love story is, to me, the focus of the movie. The Chief and the Queen are never able to spend any length of time together and don't know each other at all outside of bed...the more I think about it, the more I feel like that entire relationship was built on lust and the Chief's discovery of a new kind of sex he liked a lot. I think he's bisexual and the straight part of him is the "flower" that had been frozen until he screwed the Queen.

Hasn't crossed your mind so why are you back here replying?. I'm "up in arms?" I asked you one question, then stated two facts about the plot, because I watched it just two days ago. A lot of things about it annoyed me but I'm still glad I watched it, "insignificant" as it may be. lol

So why did you keep watching?

You need to stop watching movies altogether. LIFE, and drama, are triggers.

I ithink he loved him very much...he said he never did at the end to be cruel, and who wouldn' t be with a sword stuck halfway through your body? Did you catch how the chief twisted himself around as he was dying so that he could see the king laying against the wall? That was a look of affection and love. To me, the chief was somewhere along the bisexual continuum and being assigned to boff the Queen brought out his straight side. It's not hard to underrstand.

Oh please. The King was about 16 when they met. "Groomer..." lol You have no idea when they first started having sex.

Where did you see a man "forced" into sex? Have you ever heard of bisexuality?

It's a gay movie, not a BL, in my opinion. The chief and the King had a long-standing, intimate and loving relationship. Don't forget how reluctant the chief was to boff the Queen and how he cuddled the King at night and shed tears because he was beginning to have feelings for the Queen and he didn't want to. To me, the chief loved the King and then he loved the Queen, plus I think there's a healthy dose of bisexual lust going on here. I think at the end he told the King he didn't ever love him just to hurt him. I think he DID love him...until the moment he died. Remember how even as he lay dying, the chief twisted himself around to gaze at the King? And it wasn't with hatred. Sure there's a straight romance/lust bucket here, but there's also the chief and the King with their tongues down each other's stomachs and no one was holding a gun to the chief's head.

Life is lived in gray areas, especially in relationships. That's one of the things I adore about this flick.

MILD SPOILERS:

I put off watching this a second time for more than a year because I was so wrecked by it the first time around. Naturally it didn't shock me this time as it did the first go-round, but I caught so much I missed the first time.

How can anyone not regard this as an epic, extraordinary, passionate, stunningly acted, directed, produced and staged almost-masterpiece? My god, I'm not even that into battle/fight scenes and there were numerous ones in this film that took my breath away.

I love that the love/hate triangle involves so much gray area. Did Hong love the Queen for real, or was he grooving on that new sensation? Did he love the king for real or was he somehow "forced" into that situation and never wanted to be in it? His cuddling says otherwise. Did the Queen ever love Hong or was she glad to finally get some d**k? Did the king really love Hong or just his subservience to him? I pretty much say YES to all of the above and I love it. The fact that the king, with good intentions, set all of this in motion himself, is a master stroke of tragic story-telling.

I felt sorry for and sympathized with all three of them for most of the film. The Queen lost me when she summoned Hong to the library with one thing in mind when she should have left well enough alone. I think SHE, more than Hong, was the one gone nuts with lust. The king wemt nuts in the library of course and Hong finally went nuts when that was kind of the only option left.

There are too many amazing scenes, action and acting, to mention in one comment so I won't try. This is one of my favorite movies of all time.

The acting, especially from the three leads, was flawless and utterly real. I couldn't get enough of the king's deep and resonant voice.

And to think, this could all have been avoided if the King had just taken that handsome sub-chief up on his offer to "serve" the King that night about 2/3 of the way through.. But it was too late.

Hmmm...I wrote two questions about questions YOU had written stating clearly false information. Then I confirmed your information was false. Then I made a statement about realism in a drama. If you think that's rude, it's good that I don't care what you think. OMG, HOW RUDE! lol.

Thanks. Somehow I missed the hickey. :)

Beautiful and heart-breaking. Fear is the number-one enemy.

Oh dear god. In what way was I "rude," Arianna? Why do you think I am "frustrated" with you? I thought I was answering your questions directly. Any rudeness is wholly inferred by you. Why do you think I'm not "calm?" I assure you I am quite calm. All these questions come from assumptions made by YOU, so seems like I should be telling YOU to calm tf down, don't you think?

Thanks for all that. I appreciate it. Helps me grasp what was going on, because I was honestly confused about these things. One more thing...(lol),
who WAS it that Shin was upset about Kazu cheating with? It wasn't the married guy because he didn't know about that yet. And it was my impression that Kazu never did have sex with the married guy when he originally went to his place for refuge after leaving Shin. Was that your take?