Drama · Japan · 1992 · 1h 0m

Rose Youth

薔薇の青春

Director

Cast

Anzai Toru as Takeo Okawa Madoka Sawa as Gay bar owner Yūichi Minato as President Shoichi Shirato as Shinji Hiroyuki Ohira as Gay bar employee Katsuya Nakiri as Gay bar employee

Crew

Tomoki Yanagida — Director of Photography Satoru Kobayashi — Screenplay

Tagline

We are gay!! We have no money, no home, no status or fame, but... we have big love and swirling youth...!!

Synopsis

Takeo is a university student struggling to pay off his loans and lives a tight life while working part-time as a male escort. For him, sex is just about money or pleasure. After picking up a female university student, Takeo catches a sexually transmitted disease and his debts and medical expenses pile up, putting him in a desperate situation. Then another man called Shinji comes up with a brilliant idea.

Mood & Themes

Key Collaborators

Satoru Kobayashi Director Tomoki Yanagida Director of Photography Satoru Kobayashi Screenplay

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