Excited to learn that a team at Chulalongkorn have created a stage adaption of "The Blue Hour" #อนธการ by @Nuchyfilm. Those who know their Thai queer cinema history will realise that this was where #BL legend #GunAtthaphan @AtthaphanP had his big break! In fact, Gun was nominated and won numerous awards thanks to his performance in this film as a bullied student who enters a romantic and sexual relationship with another boy played by the equally legendary #OabNithi @OabnithiW

Keidanren revealing just how out of touch they are... what's important to note, according to my research, is that Japanese and Korean pop culture is typically consumed in tandem. Creating a narrative of "combat" will merely alienate international fans who want both together

https://twitter.com/SCMPNews/status/1645473593852035095

Not to mention that a wealth of research indicates that attempts by the Japanese government to utilise Cool Japan strategically have often failed, since the old men who run the government (and businesses) fundamentally don't understand Japanese pop culture's appeal

I thought I'd comment on this particular scene from the BBC expose on @johnnys. The discussion of sexual abuse and coercion at the company are super important, but this segment comes across as ignorant and culturally dismissive of an aesthetic with a long, pre-Johnnys history

https://twitter.com/pvstels/status/1633121734529302528

The framing of the expose and its attempts to position @johnnys culture as some kind of always-already secret world of pedophilia that stems from a moral failing on behalf of Japanese society is very lazy journalism and undercuts the important broader message of the piece