- A Touch of Fever
Infobox Film
name = Hatachi no binetsu
caption =
director =Ryosuke Hashiguchi
producer =Akira Ishigaki
writer =Ryosuke Hashiguchi
starring =Yoshihiko Hakamada ,Reiko Kataoka ,Masashi Endô ,Sumiyo Yamada
music =Akira Isono Ryuji Murayama Kôhei Shinozaki
cinematography =Junichi Tozawa
editing =Hiroshi Matsuo
distributor =
released =23 June 1993 flagicon|FRA4 September 1993 flagicon|JPN
runtime = 114 min.
country =Japan
language = Japanese
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
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imdb_id = 0107085"Hatachi No Binetsu" ("二十才の微熱", "A Touch of Fever", "The Slight Fever of a Twenty Year Old") is a Japanese film directed by
Ryosuke Hashiguchi , starringYoshihiko Hakamada andMasashi Endo , released in1993 .Plot outline
Yoshihiko and Masashi play Tatsuru and Shinichiro, respectively, both young male hustlers in Japan. The older one, Tatsuru, disconnects himself from his emotions in order to perform his job. The younger Shinichiro, meanwhile, grows uncomfortable with the work once he has fallen in love with Tatsuru. After Shinichiro gets thrown out of his parents' house, he stays at Tatsuru's apartment, and their once casual relationship awkwardly develops into something else.
Reaction in Japan
"Hatachi No Binetsu" was a commercial success, surprising given its subject matter. It was nothing less than a breakthrough for real life gay-oriented films in Japan.
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