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

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)

Trailer

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