Miike's Next

Director Takashi Miike churns out movies faster than I can possibly even try to keep up with - he's got five projects listed for this year alone - especially considering most of them get no release and very little press over here in the States. And I'll be the first to admit he's way hit-or-miss, but even so, everything I have seen has at least, well... stayed with me.

Anyway, here's word on his next film:

"Miike is to direct an adaptation of "Flower and Snake" author and S&M specialist Dan Oniroku's novella "Bishonen", which can be literally translated as "pretty young man". Set during the late 40s-early 50s in Kansai, the western region of Honshu that includes Osaka, Wakayama and Kyoto, it's a typically racy story of forbidden love between two high school boys."

So I, along with many of you, am already feeling a little bit queasy at the prospect of the director of Audition and Ichi the Killer tackling a teenage gay S&M story. But... curious, too. Let's see if we ever hear anything about this again.
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