A Touch of Fever
6.6 /10 1 Votes
63% Rotten Tomatoes Genre Drama, Romance Country Japan | 6.7/10 IMDb Director Ryosuke Hashiguchi Duration Language Japanese | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 23 June 1993 (France)
4 September 1993 (Japan) Writer Ryosuke Hashiguchi, Bobby White (subtitles) Genres Drama, LGBT, Romance Film, Japanese Movies, World cinema Cast Yoshihiko Hakamada , Reiko Kataoka , Masashi Endô , Sumiyo Yamada , Koji Sato , Kôta Kusano Similar movies Another Gay Movie , C.R.A.Z.Y. , My Life in Pink , Kiss of the Spider Woman , Were The World Mine , Maurice Tagline The Slight Fever of a 20-Year-Old | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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, starring Yoshihiko Hakamada and Masashi Endo, released in 1993.
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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.
References
A Touch of Fever WikipediaHatachi no binetsu IMDbHatachi no binetsu Rotten TomatoesA Touch of Fever themoviedb.org