Recently awarded with the “Best Humanity Award” at the Japan Film Festival in Los Angeles, Miyuki Tokoi’s “Zero as you are” follows a transgender individual on a 3000 days lasting journey of self-realization. The former Nhk producer and Galaxy Award nominee sheds light on the very recent topic of LGBTQ in Japan.
“Zero As You Are” is screening on Japannual Film Festival in Vienna
Taking a closer look at Japanese film history, gender issues have been broached more openly than one would expect from such a seemingly conformist society. Toshio Matsumoto’s “Funeral Parade of Roses” (1969), Yoshimitsu Morita’s “Kitchen” (1989), and “Close Knit” (2017) by Naoko Ogigami are only a few prime examples. In the field of documentary though, there is nothing quite comparable to Tokoi’s mammoth project.
Introducing Sky Kobayashi. The 15-year-old junior high school student lives in a state of constant anxiety. Born as a girl, and diagnosed...
“Zero As You Are” is screening on Japannual Film Festival in Vienna
Taking a closer look at Japanese film history, gender issues have been broached more openly than one would expect from such a seemingly conformist society. Toshio Matsumoto’s “Funeral Parade of Roses” (1969), Yoshimitsu Morita’s “Kitchen” (1989), and “Close Knit” (2017) by Naoko Ogigami are only a few prime examples. In the field of documentary though, there is nothing quite comparable to Tokoi’s mammoth project.
Introducing Sky Kobayashi. The 15-year-old junior high school student lives in a state of constant anxiety. Born as a girl, and diagnosed...
- 10/12/2020
- by Alexander Knoth
- AsianMoviePulse
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