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94-Year-Old Gay

Name: 94-Year-Old Gay
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2024-04-20
Duration: 1 h 30 min
Cast: Tadashi Hase

Documentary

A documentary about Tadashi Hase, a gay poet born in 1929, who spent much of his life closeted due to homosexuality being classified as a "mental illness." Despite these challenges, he became an award-winning poet and continues to work at 94. Only later in life, as societal attitudes shifted, did he come out. Through Hase’s journey, the film explores the history of homosexuality in Japan.

Director: Genki Kikkawa

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