[img]http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/6962/2006midnightsunev4.jpg[/img] [b]Midnight Sun (2006)[/b] Info: <">Synopsis: [align=justify]Can love really conquer all? That's the question at the heart of Taiyo no Uta, the tragic, yet beautiful love story from twenty-five year-old filmmaker Koizumi Norihiro! Also known by its English titles Song to the Sun and Midnight Sun, this 2006 romance stars YUI, a young idol on the rise, as she takes on the lead role of Amane Kaoru, a sixteen year old with a serious, life-threatening health problem. It seems Kaoru suffers from xeroderma pigmentosum (XP), a "sun allergy" of sorts, which makes exposure to direct sunlight a deadly risk for her. Since she cannot go out in the day, Kaoru spends her evenings indulging in her love of music, as she plays her guitar and sings away every night in front of the local train station. Singing is her only joy in life - that is, until one fateful encounter! One morning, Kaoru returns home before sunrise, only to see a high school student (Tsukamoto Takashi, from Battle Royale) standing outside her bedroom window. Soon, she makes a special effort to watch the young man and his friends head to the beach each morning. Kaoru eventually meets the boy (named Koji), and they gradually fall for one another. Of course, Koji isn't initially aware of her illness. Things take a dramatic turn when an incident reveals her secret, and Kaoru gives up singing. But as her relationship with Koji deepens, Kaoru starts to change her tune and wishes to pick up the guitar once more. Unfortunately, her illness begins to worsen. Will there be a happy ending for this couple?[/align] <">- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [img]http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/7536/34eoth1fa1.jpg[/img] [b]Love Me Not (2006)[/b] Info: <">Synopsis: [align=justify]Julian leads a luxurious lifestyle off the money he swindles from women, but one day he falls into serious financial trouble and finds his life threatened unless he can pay back his debt within a month. He decides to target a young, rich, blind heiress as his next victim.[/align] <">- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [img]http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/8349/4dbqps2wp6.jpg[/img] [b]Who Slept With Her? (2006) [/b] Info: <">Synopsis: [align=justify]Beautiful, sexy Ji-young is placed at an all boys’ high school as student-teacher. Teenage boys in puberty think of her as a sex goddess and fantasize about her. Then from one of the classrooms, Dean of Students sees a silhouette of a couple embracing and hears a woman moaning. He goes to the classroom only to discover a pair of red stilettos. He suspects Ji-young and is resolved to protect the boys from her sexual charms.[/align] <">- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [img]http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/3011/4855oy9ic4.jpg[/img] [b]The Chinese Botanist's Daughters (2006) [/b] Info: <">Synopsis: [align=justify]Forbidden love upsets the real and symbolic balance of an earthly paradise in "The Chinese Botanist's Daughters," a languid lesbian romance set in China in the early '90s. While pic (lensed in Vietnam) is lovely to look at, storybook visuals work against what should be a heart-wrenching tale of desire, ignorance and discrimination. Gay fests may prefer a less delicate approach, but theme -- secret same-sex love under state-mandated pain of death -- is a conversation starter. [/align] <">

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