Love/Juice, May 04, 2001 | 17th Annual Boston Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival

17th Annual Boston Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival

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Director

Shindo Kaze

Year

2000

Run Time

78

min

Country

Japan

Language

Japanese

PROGRAM Time

minutes

CONTENT WARNING:

Twenty-something lesbian Chinatsu shares a one-bedroom apartment with heterosexual Kyoko. Although Chinatsu and Kyoko have a passing attraction, Kyoko is mostly interested in men, especially one who tends the fish in a pet store, who despite her efforts, doesn�t seem to be interested in�her.

This film is presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

Love/Juice is a passionate, strikingly beautiful film about female friendships in contemporary Tokyo. Kyoko and Chinatsu aren’t lovers, just roommates who eat, sleep, go clubbing, do dope, and brush their teeth together. Chinatsu is a lesbian photographer who is working on a visual diary. Kyoko, less mature, develops a crush on a taciturn boy who runs a local fish store and barely acknowledges her existence. When Chinatsu is dumped by her girlfriend, Kyoko tries to console her and the two almost make love. And suddenly, it’s make-or-break time for the girls’ relationship. Without hyped-up melodramatics of any kind, Shindo Kaze’s directorial debut is one of the freshest and most believable films about female friendship ever made.

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