Article: Three's company: in Hush! a gay couple become a trio when a young woman decides to bear their child, For out filmmaker Hashiguchi Ryosuke, it's a uniquely Japanese twist. (film).

Hashiguchi Ryosuke describes the Tokyo bar scene with a laugh: "The gay bars are tiny rooms. Everybody's dressed up nicely. Everybody's gentle. You almost never find a partner in one. Everybody's so well-behaved. Nobody has the guts.

"It's all very old-fashioned and quaint," he continues. "You lean over to your friend and say, `See that boy over there? What's the story with him?' Your friend answers, `Oh, he's 30-something, and his taste in men runs like this ...' That's how connections gradually get made." Like the connection between the two lovers, Naoya (Takahashi Kazuya) and Katsuhiro (Tanabe Seiichi), in Hashiguchi's new film, Hush! We see the two men both ...

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