Close Your Eyes and Hold Me (1996)
- Original title
- 目を閉じて抱いて
- Directed by
- Itsumichi Isomura
- Genre
- drama film, LGBTQ-related film
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Rating
- 5.4 of 10 from 4 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A love triangle develops between an office worker, his girlfriend, and a transgender sex worker. The film follows the emotional conflicts that arise as the office worker falls for the new person.
emotionally intensemelancholicintimatepoignanttenderslow-burnrestrainedheartbreaking
What happens
Close Your Eyes and Hold Me (目を閉じて抱いて, Me wo Tojite Daite) is a 1996 Japanese film based on the manga Me wo Tojite Daite by Shungicu Uchida. The film is directed by Itsumichi Isomura and stars Kumiko Takeda, Kazuya Takahashi and Natsue Yoshimura. The film focuses on a love triangle between a lowly office worker, his girlfriend, and a transgender sex worker he falls in love with. It was released in theaters on July 13, 1996, in Japan. The movie was released in North American on subtitled only VHS on November 23, 1998, and then on DVD on January 13, 2004, by Central Park Media under their Asia Pulp Cinema label. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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