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If the same characters had been presented, but one was a woman and the romance was straight, do you honestly believe their "passions" would have been sublimated to the same degree as in this film?

10Dance is a standard, homo-no-homo JP flick.

His "kissing" is very restrained and reluctant here.
Machida Keita apparently enjoys taking gay roles, then refusing to commit to them.

What on Earth would make this an "18+" film?

What is the "18+" scene? I didn't see one.

Machida Keita is notorious for taking gay roles he's unwilling to commit to.
Please, leave him out of any sequel or adaptation.

Watch it for the repressed, 1950s feel of the supposed gay "romance."
Watch it for the cringe half-kisses from Machieda Keita, who apparently enjoys taking gay roles he's unwilling to commit to.
Watch it for the homophobic direction.
Watch it for the homophobia inherent to its storytelling.
Watch it for what Japan is best at: Delivering gay-but-not-really films and series.

You have zero knowledge that there will be a sequel.
If I'm wrong, please provide links to prove your assertion.
Thanks.

lol
"masterpiece," the most overused and meaningless word on MDL.

Great review. How did you rate it?

I'm happy to hunt it down for you, but first want to know if you're serious about wanting to read it, and not just pulling my leg. :D

After posting it, I was, of course, assailed and insulted by the usual fangirls. lol Goes with the territory. :)

I'm back, after watching the film, to express amazement that out of all that mayhem, blood, guts, and madness, your focus is on a 40-second scene involving a blowjob. That "villain" gets no other screen time, and we learn almost nothing else about him. Why can't one of many villains be gay? There are about 40 other villains in the movie.

"Queer coding." lol

I am the opposite of a fan of gore for gore's sake, and I found this movie to be substantially awesome, partially because it was so wildly over-the-top. The whole thing was chaotic af, just like such a mad-ass situation would be if it actually happened.

The comments of people below, looking for character development, painstaking logic, and more, who apparently can't read a synopsis, are unintentionally hilarious.

For what it is, and for not trying to be anything else:
8.5/10

Stefania, you take yourself, your screenwriting skills, and your status as an amateur film critic much too seriously.

I am the opposite of a fan of gore for gore's sake, and I found this movie to be substantially awesome, partially because I did NOT know what would come next. The whole thing was chaotic af, just like such a mad-ass situation would be if it actually happened.

Please don't attempt screenwriting as a profession. Your formulaic, by-the-numbers expectations for this film suggest that your own work would be in that by-the-numbers mode.

First of all, how nice of you to drop a massive spoiler without warning me and putting it behind a spoiler button.
Well done.

Secondly, did someone die and make you the Queer-Coding-the-Villain-When-His-Violence-Is-Already-Enough-To-Mark-HimAs-Bad Police?
Did the director forget to send a pre-release copy of the film for your approval?
Why do you see a BJ as a bad thing?
I'd be tempted to regard such a person more highly after seeing that.
Perhaps you have some internalized homophobia to work on.

Regardless, please put your above reply behind a spoiler button so you don't spray it all over unsuspecting people. I don't want the blame for asking an innocent question, not knowing I'd get a political mini-rant in response.

What is a "SIG?"

So, where's the spoiler tag now?
My first comment was the opposite of aggressive.
That changed when you refused, as you still do, to use the spoiler button.

There are a fair number of spoiler-lovers like you on MDL. Always pretending not to know what they're doing.

I did.
A beautiful flop.
4/10

My comment is somewhere among the other 1,900 comments on the 10dance thread. If you want to read it, let me know. I'll hunt it down and DM it to you.

Thank you for the clarification!

I'm going to give it a go and see what I think.
I've learned there's no shame in dropping a flick part-way in, if it sucks. :)
Actually, I do that quite a bit. :D

" tho it's probably obvious who I mean,"

It IS obvious who you mean, as you well know, and yet now, even after being politely asked to use the spoiler button, you refuse to do so because you get off on passive-aggressively spoiling plot points while pretending NOT to spoil plot points.

So, now we know you're a spoiler fan who is also an ass.
Thanks.

lol

What did you like about it? Asking because of all the negative comments here.