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  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • Altered Innocence
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • Altered Innocence
  • 1 h 39 m

Summary Trailblazing artists, activists, and everyday people from across the spectrum of gender and sexuality defy social norms and dare to shine in this kaleidoscopic view of LGBTQ+ culture in contemporary Japan. From glossy pride parades to playfully perverse underground parties, Queer Japan pictures people living brazenly unconventional lives...

Directed By: Graham Kolbeins

Written By: Anne Ishii, Graham Kolbeins

  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • Altered Innocence
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • Altered Innocence
  • 1 h 39 m

Queer Japan

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary Trailblazing artists, activists, and everyday people from across the spectrum of gender and sexuality defy social norms and dare to shine in this kaleidoscopic view of LGBTQ+ culture in contemporary Japan. From glossy pride parades to playfully perverse underground parties, Queer Japan pictures people living brazenly unconventional lives...

Directed By: Graham Kolbeins

Written By: Anne Ishii, Graham Kolbeins

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91
Dec 10, 2020
Queer Japan serves as a series of lively snapshots of a multifaceted and shifting subject and comes up a little short on the issues of day-to-day experience of Japanese gay life.
By Liam Lacey FULL REVIEW
80
Dec 16, 2020
A kaleidoscopic look at a marginalized community, Queer Japan is required viewing for anyone in the community as well as their allies.
By Norman Gidney FULL REVIEW
75
Dec 14, 2020
The film is deliberately and at times deliriously scattershot, jumping from one subject to another and rarely slowing down to draw connections or make larger points.
By Steve Pond FULL REVIEW
75
Nov 19, 2020
There is nothing, simply nothing, to make you feel that you’ve led a sexually-sheltered life, that your understanding of the modern fluid, on-the-spectrum nature of sexuality is superficial at best, than Queer Japan.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
70
Dec 16, 2020
I wish that “Queer Japan” had delved more into historical matters of fashion and androgyny, or into the life of someone like Yukio Mishima. It’s a very present-tense movie, but how did the movements on display evolve? Kolbeins would have done well to show us. Instead, he presents a snapshot of a revolution in midair, leaping to find a form for how to remake the future.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
70
Dec 16, 2020
A cheerful spirit of open inquiry drives the documentary Queer Japan, in fact, which is tender, impressionistic rather than highly structured, and largely inexplicit — that amusingly candid vox pop notwithstanding.
By Harry Windsor FULL REVIEW
70
Dec 16, 2020
There’s a lot to see and to think about here, all well-curated by a documentarian with a clear passion for his subject.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW

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Release Date Dec 11, 2020
Duration 1 h 39 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.queerjapanmovie.com/
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