Rainbow Reel Competition 2018

We have a wonderful selection of Japanese films this year!
The Grand Prize is hanging on your vote!

※All non-English films have English subtitles.

Schedule

7/16 16:55~ @Spiral Hall

OLD NARCISSUS

[Drama][G]
※All non-English films have English subtitles.

Dir:Tsuyoshi SHOJI
2017|JAPAN|21min|Japanese
Trailer

Picture book author Yamazaki, an old, homosexual man, a narcissist, finds his aging body unbearable. One night, he meets a beautiful young man, Leo. Making out with him, Yamazaki suddenly collapses in the middle of it. He confesses his agony to Leo, but in vain – he doesn’t move the young man’s heart. Old Narcissus, failing to die in his youth, confronts another person and for his first time, falls in love…


KISS

[Romance][G]
※All non-English films have English subtitles.

Dir:Ryo OMURA
2018|JAPAN|8min|Japanese
World Premiere

A gay couple are kissing and deepening love in a movie scenario. As the two main actors are also a couple in real life, you can literally see “Love” in its exact form. The director himself mentions his aspects of kissing being entertaining and filled with wonder.

HIV x LOVE ?

[Drama][G]
※All non-English films have English subtitles.

Dir:Katsuhide Yamago
2017|JAPAN|10min|Japanese
Trailer

Yuto, who is single, enjoys sex on a daily basis. He is always cautious – he wears a condom. One day, he receives a LINE message from his sex-buddy Jiu whom says “You should get tested. I’m positive….” What does Yuto do? This movie is the 2nd part of the film “Sex × Friend?”, which has been screened at 14 film festivals abroad.


Freedom

[Romance][L]
※All non-English films have English subtitles.

Dir:Ayaka FURUKAWA
2018|Japan|3 min
Trailer
Japan Premiere

A girl who grew up in a religious village cannot forget about one night that she spent with a woman whom she had met unexpectedly. Struggling to think of what ‘freedom’ means for her, the girl finally makes a decision. The movie stars Hannah Sharp, who is known for her appearance in ‘Doctor Who’, the longest running Sci-Fi television drama series aired on BBC.
※Hannah Sharp


Miyako

[Drama][Youth][Q]
※All non-English films have English subtitles.

Dir:Yua NAKADA
2017|JAPAN|16min|Japanese
World Premiere

As a son in a long-established Japanese confectionery shop and a third-year junior high school student, Tomohiro is troubled with his course in life. He helps in the shop every day as his father expects him to take over the family business. One day, when he delivers sweets to a Geisha house, he sees the severe world of Maiko. They don’t let it out into the open, which attracts Tomohiro…

Garconne – The woman having both sexes

[Romance][Drama][I]
※All non-English films have English subtitles.

Dir:Mayu AKIYAMA
2017|JAPAN|31min|Japanese

Hazuki, who is intersex, aspires to become an actress after Hazuki’s uncle, who runs an entertainment agency, recommends Hazuki to do so. Hazuki’s manager coaches Hazuki on ‘femininity’, because although Hazuki looks like a woman, she cannot get rid of her manliness. One day, Hazuki is offered a role in a TV drama, but her co-actress turns out to be her ex-girlfriend and actress, Asuka Mugita. With her sexual identity wavering, Hazuki searches for a way to continue as an actress. Which she had her reasons for…