Dousoukai (1993) Episode 1/10
Dousoukai follows the story of three characters - Orihara Natsuki, Andou Fuuma and Atari Kousuke, all who studied at the same high school in rural Toi. Ten years later, with all three of them working in Tokyo, their lives take an unexpected turn with the introduction of Arashi, who as his name suggests, brings a storm of chaos into their lives.
The most iconic 90s LGBT drama from Japan which had a huge impact on Japan and the content as we know it now. Just like previous Ossan's Love, it was a pillar of a certain time period. Granted, there were other dramas and movies in the 90s starring queer characters, but Dousoukai was a drama that did it on such a scale that no other drama from that period could ever compare.
It's said that the streets of Shinjuku 2-Choume (gay district in Tokyo) emptied out around the time this drama aired because everyone would be watching it from 10 to 11 pm.
I'll warn in advance that this drama contains a huge amount of nude scenes, sex scenes and later on some assault scenes, so please keep that in mind before starting it. But don't let that discourage you since this drama has lots of beautiful scenes and unique views on love to offer.
This has been years in the making, so I hope you enjoy the first ep!
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You're free to choose which version you want - 480p is the original video, 1080p is the upscale for better readibility of subtitles, so I recommend that. The characters were color-coded in the past to keep track all of them even at a later time, so I've included that version as well. The colors have no particular meaning as they're random. The color-coded version has karaoke as well.
My most sincere thanks go out to @furritsubs for even agreeing to work on this together with me. Together we could figure out most lines and it was hard work that spanned sooo many hours and replays. That said, if you know any Japanese people who can caption some difficult parts of the drama, feel free to let me know! Also, if you spot any errors and you know they're wrong with absolute certainty, I'd also appreciate you reaching out ^^
Translation notes below the cut.
I still cannot believe how this took years in the making and now EP1 is finally out! So honored @nicks-den reached out to me about this project. Nick definitely poured out his entire heart, time and effort towards this project. I cannot believe how his patience ran deep for this drama. And now we're here!
We are both so excited to share this work with you. I hope you stay patient with us for the upcoming episodes as well.
This was a drama that was ahead of its time when it was released in 1993. It was absolutely groundbreaking. Japanese viewers (you can see their comments about it on youtube where a user uploaded the episodes of this series up there) still talk about its impact to this day and how iconic of a series this was. Reading their comments about it made me imagine how they felt back when this was airing.
We hope you enjoy this one.














