Okoge

Given the low visibility of gay men in Japanese society, Japan is the last country you'd expect to come up with the year's most credible and engrossing account of a gay relationship. But that's exactly what Okoge is: a candid, intimate story of the ups and downs in an affair between a married salary-man and his younger, self-employed lover, seen through the entranced eyes of a young woman who Iets them use her bed when they have no place else to go. (Tony Rayns)