Gay Japanese Titanic spoof -- to sell cable?

It's a movie spoof! It's Japanese! It's Gay! What more could a boy ask for on a Friday afternoon? We thought we'd give you a little something to laugh at while you're killing time until the boss says you can leave early for the holiday weekend. (Like you're actually working)

I've never been a big fan of James Cameron's schmaltz-fest Titanic, but it's impossible to deny that Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet's scene at the front of the ship has become as iconic as Meg Ryan's deli scene in When Harry Met Sally or that scene in Maurice when James Wilby and Rupert Graves are finally reunited in the pillow-laden boathouse and they kiss and then...or maybe that's just me.

It's so refreshing that The Star channel (a Japanese cable channel, or so I surmised as their entire website is in Japanese and I can only assume so much due to context) didn't go the whole Snicker's route with a gay-panic ending, or even the accidental embarrassing positions route. Instead the two men fully assume the roles from the movie, displaying affection and pleasure in the moment. Japanese society is so fundamentally different than America's in so many ways; it would be interesting to see how this ad was perceived by its intended audience.