I which I ramble on at great length about Frozen Flower...

...and why conscious attempts to make a "yaoi movie" are doomed to failure from the start. ( Rampant spoilerage and plot elision below the cut. )

Anyway, these mixed signals left me curious as to how much of the plot is historical fact. The wiki article was most unforthcoming in this regard. ( But then I remembered the horseback painting. )

これで以上です。