Boy's Choir

There is a universal problem every culture and race struggles to achieve a solution which is theyoung boy who is orphaned. In the Asian ambit, this DVD portrays the Roman Catholic ChurchOrphanage which features a Boys Choir. In a very well done manner, the producer presents themysterious nemesis of honor, saving face, and suicide among the adolescent boys. Of course thissocial nemesis of suicide and the problem of the orphan are not confined to the Asian world.This DVD could be a positive exhortation to a Father, male Mentor or Guardian to guide a Son,boy patron or a adolescent ward.

Just not what I thought it would be, there are better movies out there.

An unusual story between two boys both in need of a friend. I found it intimate and a little romantic, but no sex or physical exploring. It's just two outcast people who didn't fit with the gang. It's a sublte story just to make you think and feel.

This movie is about young love attraction between two young males. The problem is one of the actors is a female, and is quite clear to see. Bad acting, bad directing, not very well done.

This is a strange and somewhat misleading movie which does not have a gay subject matter. It may be construed that the relationship between the two main characters to be gay, but it is not.The beginning of the movie shows a young boy, Michio, witnessing his father's death in a hospital while he is plotting 3 of his bodily functions. That right off the bet is rather strange. Even though the movie is set in the 70's in Japan, rather a turbulent times for that country, I would think that hospitals were equipped with charts.At the moment of death, Michio's father comes alive and blurts a phrase, making no sense. This theme of what happens after life seems to be a recurring one.Michio becomes an orphan and is sent to a Catholic orphanage in the country side. The school is run by a pastor, who used to be a revolutionary of the Communist Party in Japan. Later on in the movie one his former accomplices, a girl, who is wanted along with him for bombing a police headquarters, shows back in his life and at the school. He wants nothing to do with her as his past life is over. She blows herself up into pieces while the police attempts to arrest her. He gets arrested but released.In the orphanage, Michio meets Yasuo, an effeminate looking boy. He becomes his only friend in the beginning because Michio has a problem with stuttering, and the other boys pick on him. The school has a boy's choir and Yasuo sings soprano as well as he is a leader in this group. Michio joins the choir.The movie goes on in portraying the development of friendship between these two boys. It dwell a lot on the choir's duties, the music, and lyrics, which are very political, heavy handed to the Red Communist Party (making the movie a rather political statement.)Even though this movie is a story about a boy's choir, and it does that rather well, the plot could have been much better. The gay relationship between these two boys could have been developed better. I think that was what this movie was intended for? I read in a synopsis somewhere that Yasuo becomes jealous of Michio looking at a girl. I missed that.Michio looses his stuttering and becomes confident of himself. Yasuo looses his voice while away in the summer (he ran away to Tokyo to march with the revolutionaries). Michio tries to help him cope with his problem, returning the favor. But again the heavy tone political statement comes back. The choir goes for competition in the semi-final and win third place. Yasuo commits suicide at the very end but again the nonsensical remark at the point of death comes back. The end is very confusing as they show the choir with Yasou singing soprano. Is this after death?The movie is convoluted as it depicts many topics. What happens after death, the political statement about the Communist Party in the 70's in Japan, a boy's choir in a Catholic orphanage in the country side. a pastor who is running away from his past, Christianity versus Buddhism, etc.This is my second Japanese movie. I liked the first one better.

This is a foreign film with many awards, outstanding dramaand you would not believe the descipline in this movieenjoy it is a film you can watch over and over

well not bad of a movie, could have been better, the story line is good but how much can you take things for granted and use your imagination? maybe a little more action from both main characters would have been just awesome, like show more interest on each other, just wishing, good movie overall

If this Japanese story of strong bondage between two adolescent males can be considered gay, then most of occidental relationships would. And that’s most of the plot of this long movie, 2h10. Boy enters an orphanage school, is hostilased for its stammering, supported by another and conduced to the choir, where situations eventually are transposed. Subplots include an embryonic leftish movement never well explained. Bore, bore, pure boredom. Beautiful landscapes in a meditative film indented for Japanese fanfics, which will give significance to small rocks left in precise points.

Boychoir is my favourite movie at present.hated the Boy's choir. I gave it away to an Asian.W Owen