Midnight Swan

Nagisa (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) is transgender. She grew up in Hiroshima as a man, but now lives in Shinjuku, Tokyo as a woman. Due to an incident, she begins to live with middle school student Ichika (Misaki Hattori), who is a distant relative. Ichika has been neglected by her mother Saori (Asami Mizukawa). From living in solitude by herself, to now living with Ichika, Nagisa develops maternal instincts for the first time.

A poignant story about identity and security, written and directed by Eiji Uchida. A name that may ring a bell, since we welcomed him in person in 2019 for the screening of Love and Other Cults. Due to COVID-19, Uchida could not be there this time, but he did send us a video message!

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