NATIONAL PROGRAMME
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AME NO MANIMANI
18 years old, June, on the way home. Today is a normal day at all. It's just his birthday. That's it, but it's a special day for me.
Yuki Kanazawa
Fiction, Drama | Japan | 2020 | 0:06:07
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BLUE AFFAIR
Recurring recollections of his time in a town, started infiltrating the dreams of a photographer, pushing him to return to the dream and leaving reality.
Kosuke Okahara
Documentary, Experimental | Japan | 2020 | 0:12:47
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ENDING TONE TO THE SEA
A young man comes to a woman who lives alone in an apartment beside the railroad track. It was a cut-off son. The two of them quarrel again because they have a big feeling for each other after reuniting for the first time in 5 years. However, the son forced her mother out, saying, "I didn't come to fight. There is a place I want to take you."
Hironori KUJIRAOKA
Fiction, Drama | Japan | 2021 | 0:22:21
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IT'S JUST OUR FAMILY
Elin McCready and Midori Morita have been married for 20 years, and live in Tokyo with their 3 kids. In 2018 Elin changed her legal gender in the US, and shortly thereafter attempted to do so in Japan as well. However, Japan has refused to recognize her transition as it would result in the de facto acceptance of same-sex marriage.
Ameya
Documentary, LGBTQ | Japan | 2021 | 0:30:00
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