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Midnight Swan

2020 · 124 min

A quiet, heartfelt drama about two isolated people slowly learning to trust and care for each other.

Directed by: Eiji Uchida
Genres: Drama
Starring: Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Misaki Hattori, Asami Mizukawa

Overview: Nagisa 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, who is a distant relative. Ichika has been neglected by her mother Saori. From living in solitude by herself, to now living with Ichika, Nagisa develops maternal instincts for the first time.

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Directed by: Eiji Uchida
Genres: Drama
Starring: Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Misaki Hattori, Asami Mizukawa

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
upliftingstrength 1 of 3
earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: found family
identity
isolation
parenthood
healing
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	0
Humour	3
Realism	8
Romance	1
Tension	3
Darkness	6
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Eiji Uchida
Written by: Eiji Uchida
Starring: Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Misaki Hattori, Asami Mizukawa, Tomorowo Taguchi, Sei Matobu, Shunsuke Tanaka, Kaito Yoshimura, Reo Sanada
Music: Keiichiro Shibuya
Cinematography: Maki Ito
Runtime: 124 min
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

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