Does anybody if there were any interviews after the film? Like if the one girl who was insanely in love wish Issei watched the film after it was released?
Watching this makes me wonder what the potential fallout was after it was released.
Me too, would really love to find out how the lives of the host guys and the clients were changed.
shareYes, especially after the girls saw themselves and then saw Issei in the interview in the elevator...
shareGod, that elevator interview made me wince. I could genuinely see that girl Saori killing herself, killing him, or both.
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On the Loveless website, it says "produce[d] by Issei", so I wonder if he owns this new place, too. His photo is first on the staff page, but he's got no bio and no ranking, either. Also, he's posted recruiting info on his blog. (God bless Google Translator.)
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http://www.cinematl.com/index.php?option=com_jd-wp&Itemid=78&p=143
Issei is the focus of the documentary The Great Happiness Space: Tale of an Osaka Love Thief. This slick, cocky young man is a top seller at a male host club, a venue where women pay big bucks for a night of drinking and attention from young men. It’s a fascinating yet sad situation on many fronts: The women are in search for attention, affection or emotional connection that they know they won’t get from these men, but continue paying out money in pursuit of it. The men toy with the girls, leading them on so that they will shell out the yen to keep their attention, knowing that its not a good thing in light of what some girls do to get money for club visits. For Issei, it’s simply a business, but the business costs him as much in emotional damage as it costs his clients in cash.
Producer Iris Jyoung was on hand to field questions about this intriguing documentary following its screening yesterday. Unfortunately, and happily, director Jake Clennell was not present, as he is in talks with a distributor for the film. Following is an edited transcript of the Q&A. Apologies for grammatical and transcription errors.
Q: Have they seen the film and how did they react?
Iris: In the early stages, we had a rough assembly that we sent over so the guys could see… The girls didn’t really take a look at it. I don’t think they could, really. It wouldn’t be a good thing if they saw it. At some point, Jake went back to do pick ups, and he brought over a copy of the film to show to the guys, and they were really happy with how Jake presented them. They were okay with it.
Q: But the girls… [The film] will never screen there?
Iris: The girls are harder to track down. Being a prostitute… it‘s something you’re not in for too long. A lot of these girls were harder to track down. They don’t stay at any one host club for any length of time. So when we went back, we didn’t see any of the girls again. So they didn’t see anything. And we are actually not… Part of the deal we made with Issei… he didn’t want the movie to be shown in Japan, so we want to respect that.
Hope this helps out, because I was dying to know a little of the fallout. Apparently the Queen Psycho hasn't been seen since.
thanks for that. i too, was curious about it, and this slightly quenches my thirst.
shareI wonder why it seems some posters missed the last part after Issei trashed that 1 girl, when he said they say they love you but you see them in other clubs saying 'I love you' to other hosts or cheating on their boyfriends...
I think this really stood out to me as these women were victims yes but not in the way we originally thought. I doubt these women are in love with Issei or any of the other hosts, as it seems more like a superficial infatuation. How can one be in love with many at the same time?
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I wonder why it seems some posters missed the last part after Issei trashed that 1 girl, when he said they say they love you but you see them in other clubs saying 'I love you' to other hosts or cheating on their boyfriends...
I think this really stood out to me as these women were victims yes but not in the way we originally thought. I doubt these women are in love with Issei or any of the other hosts, as it seems more like a superficial infatuation. How can one be in love with many at the same time?
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Yeah, my view on the entire subject changed drastically after a couple things were mentioned.
First, the description of the film says clubs were wealthy women go to be entertained by young guys. So at first, I thought it was old, rich women just having young, attractive men as prostitutes. Then you see all these young, attractive women at the clubs. Then you find out the great majority of the clientele are prostitutes themselves, so that changed how I felt very much so. Then with the psyco girl so in love with Issei, the way she talked about him, you would think he is the only one for her and he is the one she really wants, I felt like he was using her badly for the money she pays and tells her things to keep her hanging on and paying the money....then you find out she goes to other host boy clubs and that she very well may be doing the same exact thing with some other guy in the same exact fashion somewhere else. Very strange indeed.
My Osakan girlfriend and I just finished watching it, and she did a bit of reading into the what happened to everyone after... Turns out that Saori - full name Saori Nakayama! - came to find a bit of fame in the years following as a competitive eater!!!
Proof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-im5izxkFQ (go to 4:45)