Japanese actor-director Kitano says his new film explores homosexual relations in the samurai world

TOKYO (AP)– Japanese actor-director Takeshi Kitano says he desired his new film “Kubi” to reveal the world of samurai in manner ins which mainstream motion pictures have actually hardly ever done previously, by depicting the homosexual, love-hate connection of warlords in among Japan’s finest recognized historic episodes.

“What is never shown is relationships between men at that time, including their homosexual relationships,” Kitano informed a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan on Wednesday in advance ofthe Nov 23 opening of his film in Japan.

The tale of “Kubi,” or “neck,” programs the 1582 ambush of Oda Nobunaga, among Japan’s best-known warlords, at the Honnoji holy place in Kyoto by an assistant, Akechi Mitsuhide.

Past dramatization from that duration have actually just revealed “very cool actors and pretty aspects,” Kitano stated.

“This is a duration when specifically guys were staying up to date with their …