Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Sammy-Jo Cervantes There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

carolus-93309 The information and the photo is NOT from the movie Boys Love, but from Boys Love 2, theatrical edition, aka Schoolboy Crush. Boys Love is from 2006 but the synopsis is also wrong. Boys Love, the first film released in 2006, tells the story of Taishin Mamiya, a magazine editor who meets and interviews a young model, Noeru Kisaragi, and becomes attracted to him. Their love, however, is forbidden. The tagline of the movie is "All we did was love each other, but...our love is forbidden. Why is it a 'sin'"? Plot Just doing his job, magazine editor Taishin Mamiya (Yoshikazu Kotani) interviews high school model Noeru Kisaragi (Takumi Saito). Despite Noeru's bad attitude, an enchanting picture of the ocean he draws leads Mamiya to invite him out for dinner after-wards. They connect at the restaurant, but while in the bathroom there Noeru solicits Mamiya sexually. The next morning, Noeru's office calls the magazine office where Mamiya works. "Your editor was rude. Have him come and apologize." When Mamiya goes to Noeru's house to deliver the apology, he sees Noeru with a dirty-looking man. Mamiya is shocked to discover at that moment that his interest in Noeru goes beyond article research—he truly wants to know more about him.

Havan_IronOak This film seems to have been a cross between Romeo & Juliet and some of the most popular Yaoi Manga.Our protagonist is a young reporter/editor who meets and falls for a popular model/painter/school-boy who is dealing with some childhood abandonment issues by being promiscuous.Unfortunately there's a another school-boy in love with our promiscuous model who is ignored until a very foreseeable end comes about.As with most Japanese films that I've seen, I'm not sure what's realistic and what is stylized. The plot is presented largely in flashback but attempts to maintain the element of mystery. Presenting scenes out of order and allowing the audience to fill in blanks in the back-story is a well-established way of engaging the audiences interest and to some degree it works here.The actors were certainly attractive enough and the skin scenes were titillating but I would have enjoyed learning more about what was going on below those beautiful surfaces.Also the production values were wildly uneven. Obviously great care and effort went into picking out some wonderful locations (particularly the pool and the aquarium themed restaurant) but the artwork that was supposedly done by the model/artist/schoolboy was barely refrigerator door quality.Also the subtitling frequently suffered from white on white washout. The picture might have been better served by a black border with subtitles below.Unfortunately by the film's conclusion I was still uncertain how much of what had been portrayed was poor film making or was poor cultural understanding on my part and the story wasn't strong enough to overcome these flaws.I found that I didn't really care for these characters enough to really recommend this film.

rgcustomer The acting and writing are both pretty bad. Lots of things happen, with amateur over-acting, for no apparent reason. In fact, US daytime soap operas might even be considered an improvement over this. Consider the recent "Nuke" storyline on As the World Turns.The casting doesn't make a lot of sense. The interviewer is more attractive than the supposed model he interviews. He also appears to be the same age or even younger, despite having graduated and attained some level of experience in the workforce. This is merely the film's biggest flaw.The music and other sound work is plainly very cheap. You'll laugh when punches start being thrown.Knowing that the film couldn't stand on its own, it is peppered with short statements on love, almost like the film is supposed to be some mathematical proof, with each scene justified by some dead guy's words. It's supposed to convince you that the film is making some grand contribution to cinema, but it doesn't cover up how bad the film is.The ending is inexplicable and assumes the worst about one character (who is only in the film to provide this moment) while being very harsh to another.On the positive side, the sets, which I assume were just places they found, were appealing. That was probably the best part of the film.

Trinian89 from:HTTP://www.crunchyroll.comJust doing his job, magazine editor Taishin Mamiya (Yoshikazu Kotani) interviews high school model Noeru Kisaragi (Takumi Saito). Despite Noeru's bad attitude, an enchanting picture of the ocean he draws leads Mamiya to invite him out for dinner after wards. They connect at the restaurant, but while in the bathroom there Noeru solicits Mamiya sexually. The next morning, Noeru's office calls the magazine office where Mamiya works. "Your editor was rude. Have him come and apologize." When Mamiya goes to Noeru's house to deliver the apology, he sees Noeru with a dirty-looking man. Mamiya is shocked to discover at that moment that his interest in Noeru goes beyond article research--he truly wants to know more about him.me: The movie is very sweet, it shows that Love is more than just physicality. and that there is a huge gap between obsession and true love. Noeru is someone who is tormented by his loneliness, he sleeps with men randomly to fill his loneliness without success. Along comes Mamiya, and refuses him, this I believe at first makes him more interesting for Noeru, but slowly the the two bound as Mamiya's interest in knowing who Noeru is..which slowly transcends to affection. If you love the Genre, this movie is just for you...