Dosei no Shinyu wo Suki ni Natte Shimatta (2024)

No regrets

I Fell In Love With Someone Of The Same Sex is a japanese short film. It is a classic story of friends to lovers with the usual tropes: secret crush, jealous girlfriend, love triangle, mean ex girlfriend.

Naoki has been in love with his best friend Tomoya for the whole three years of the high school. At the moment of Tomoya's departure to the university, Naoki confesses not expecting anything in return believing his friend straight but not wanting to have any regrets. Tomoya is shaken by this confession and cannot keep the relationship with his new girlfriend going for a long time so he goes back after six months. Naoki has tried to move on and has a girlfriend but Tomoya's return will shake his newfound stability.

The production looks rather low budget, the editing is choppy, the sound is bad but the acting is nice: the actors have great chemistry and emote well. It is nothing new, the story told and seen so many times before and yet still fresh and sweet.... The film is actually really nice and I wish it were longer. Not a single moment was wasted: the whole story is told through short but very eloquent and important scenes from the boys' lives! For example: sharing an ice cream shows how close they are, mean girl pushing in between them or "naively" outing Naoki to his new girlfriend as a bitter revenge.

I just cannot help but laugh at the name of the production company: CUL Drama (https://www.youtube.com/@culdrama) with "cul" being a slang word in French for porn(I'm French!)! Rest assured, this film is not porn: there is one kiss on the cheek and that's it!

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