Japanese Magnolia
Fusao is a teenage boy who has the unusual gift of writing. Lord Okimoto is the son of a samurai. Both have a nature of swinging the other way and soon there developes a forbidden love affair between the two who live during the Edo period, which breaks all rules of Japan's orthodox society. About four centuries later, an ancestor of Lord Okimoto finds a diary. As the diary is read by a historian, it unfolds the heartbreaking account of shattered dreams and tragic deaths. What happened after the two were caught red handed? Could the lovers get away with what they did? The story does not end with the Edo period. The spirit of the gay samurai carries on even in modern days. How does such a twist in situation come about?
