Midnight Swan
This film was nominated for the best of the 44th Japan Film Academy strong4 strong4 span strong4 _strong4 span_strong7span_strong7 in multiple awards .
tells the story of transgender groups and dancing girls who are influenced by their native families.
male protagonist Nasa , a transgender person who works part-time as a dancer in an LGBT bar.
The guests who come to the bar for entertainment are usually just for fun, and these transgender groups are not very popular.
Regarding Naisa's identity and occupation, no one in the family knew about him. Everyone thought he was just an ordinary tall man.
Nasa's original name is Kenji . When talking on the phone with his mother, he will return to his original rough voice.
Naisa has a cousin Saori , she only knows to drink, for her daughter Yiguo never cares.
The mother of the protagonist sees her letting her daughter go, so she wants Yiguo to transfer to another school and move to live with the protagonist for a while.
One is a girl who is not controlled by her family, and the other is a transgender person who conceals the truth from her family.
When they first lived together, the two of them disliked each other. As they got along slowly, they gradually opened up to accept each other.
The experience of both of them is hidden tragic factor.
Nasa's desire to be a girl has taken root since she was a child. He thinks why boys can only wear swimming trunks instead of beautiful swimsuits.
However, naive ideas are vulnerable to reality.
After growing up and entering society, he gradually realized the difficulties of transgender people. After all, in the eyes of other people, people like them are not influential.
Yiguo is the problem of the native family, and her mother is addicted to alcohol.
said that it was for the good of her daughter, but she never fulfilled her responsibility as a mother.
The relationship with Yiguo has awakened the maternal love in Nasa's heart.
He wanted to be a "mother" of Yiguo, so he underwent sex reassignment surgery, but this also caused misfortune in his life.
Yiguo has a talent for dancing. In order to train her to participate in ballet training, Naisa has paid a lot.
He tried to change his identity as a man to do physical work, and when he had to, he would go against his will to pick up guests.
There is also a girl in the ballet class Lin .
is different from Yiguo. Lin was born in a wealthy family and doesn't have to worry about the cost of classes.
But Lin was not very happy. Her parents just acted according to their own wishes, which made her feel more pressured.
Lin, who could not bear it, finally jumped down from the tall building while dancing ballet.
Naisa was blinded by surgery and eventually died quietly.
Yiguo refused to go back to Tokyo with Nasa before, and only met Nasa for the last time after she graduated.
Whether it is a transgender person who is looked down upon by others, or a girl who has suffered severe family damage.
They endured the pain and lived their lives. It was at night that they were able to take off their guards and become dancing swans.
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