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Close-Knit japanese movie review
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Close-Knit
9 people found this review helpful
by Kidd
Jun 29, 2020
Completed
Overall 8.0
Story 8.5
Acting/Cast 6.0
Music 7.0
Rewatch Value 8.5

Male Actor Playing a Transgender Woman

This movie was so cute and sweet, but as a queer person I can't help but hate the fact that a cisgender male is playing a physically transitioned transgender woman.
I understand that it's sometimes difficult to cast trans actors, but in that case, they should have hired a cisgender woman to play Rinko. Despite the hidden transphobia in the casting of Rinko, Ikuta Toma did do an amazing job portraying her.
As often LGBTQ+ films do, this movie is no fail to the trope of trying to show queer people they can't have happy endings.

All it's faults aside, this movie is an incredible, understated, gem. I'd recommend anyone to watch it, and look further into the lives of trans people, and the everyday struggles of passive aggressive discrimination we face.
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