Overview
Tomoya is a 21-year-old a university student in Tokyo and a chance encounter with Shoichi, a gay bar owner who operates in Shinjuku 2-chome, allows Tomoya the chance to begin articulating his homosexuality. He will have many men to learn from as he is drawn into a house party hosted by Akito and his partner Yasushi, Naoki, a gay club owner, and his friend Masashi, and Kenichi, a photographer. As the alcohol flows and the party gets exciting, Tomoya works out all is not well with the other guests as their worries and feelings that have been locked away are gradually revealed.
Reviews
This was a bit of a letdown, although I think it could have been more had they taken a different path with the story. Some minor spoilers, but not everything: The first 30 minutes are random people and we get glimpses into their lives. One is a college student who is not really friendly, and is awkward, but he kind of becomes friends with another gay guy; there are others too. Eventually, through a 'friend of a friend' type of thing, they all end up at a party at one gay couple's house. Most of that is them having fun, although sometimes it gets serious. However, at the party the college guy is spying on one of the hosts and sees something private and he then goes and tells everyone at the party what he saw, just basically to cause trouble. This is someone that really didn't know anyone there and they welcomed him in and this is how he repays them. He really was just a jerk and not awkward at all. The movie ends with them just sitting around in the apartment feeling bad for different reasons. This could have been a much more interesting movie if they had dealt with 'what happened after the party', but they didn't. It was more of an uncomfortable non-ending.
