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Embracing Love: Cherished Spring (2005)

58m

Running Time

Embracing Love: Cherished Spring (2005)

Name: Embracing Love: Cherished Spring
Genre: Animation
Released: 2005-03-31

58m

Running Time

Plot.

Kyousuke Iwaki and Youji Katou who are both in the film industry, having starred in various adult video films and are trying to climb the ladder of success and become greater actors. Iwaki is accepted to star in a popular movie, having beaten Katou in the auditions. During their time together, Katou believes he is in love with Iwaki-san, who on the contrary refuses to believe that he is in love. It is later on that another gay actor comes back to Japan and co-stars with Katou that problems starting arising. And it is from then on that the two realize where their hearts are set.

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This Movie Is About.

lgbt ·

anime

Cast & Crew.

Toshiyuki Morikawa

Kyousuke Iwaki

Kazuhiko Inoue

Nagisa Sawa

Shin-ichiro Miki

Youji Katou

Kentaro Ito

Kazunari Urushizaki

Ken Narita

Katsuya Kikuchi

Kentaro Ito

Kazunari Urushizaki

Yoshikata Nitta

Director

Chihiro Suzuki

Yukihito Sawa

Youka Nitta

Writer

Mami Watanabe

Writer

Tomokazu Sugita

Reporter B

Haruhi Nanao

Female Reporter A

Details.

Release Date
March 31, 2005

Original Name
春を抱いていた

Status
Released

Running Time
58m

Genres
Animation

Wiki.

Embracing Love (春を抱いていた, Haru o Daiteita) is a yaoi manga by Youka Nitta, it narrates the story about two male pornographic actors who fall in love as they attempt to break into mainstream acting. It was published in English by Be Beautiful Manga prior to Biblos's bankruptcy. In 2012, SuBLime Manga announced that they had licensed the series for an omnibus release. As of 2023, only the first 6 volumes have been released in North America. In addition to the manga, a drama CD and OVA have been released. Nitta chose to use the pornography industry as a backdrop because she felt it had potential, and she felt there was a parallel between how the pornography industry is marginalised in Japan and how boys love manga is marginalised within the manga industry.