Trans Allegories in Film: 'Your Name' (2016)
Our protagonists perform as the opposite gender while still preserving the parts of their personalities that makes themselves who they are.
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This is a film about a medium approaching extinction, an 8mm documentary film about a vanishing 8mm cinema. Blending two genres, the science film and the personal film, and benefiting from the participation of multiple generations of cineastes, it is a reflection upon the original cinematic experience.
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This is a film about a medium approaching extinction, an 8mm documentary film about a vanishing 8mm cinema. Blending two genres, the science film and the personal film, and benefiting from the participation of multiple generations of cineastes, it is a reflection upon the original cinematic experience.
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Genre:Documentary
Directed By:Kenji Onishi, Kenji Murakami, Mikio Yamazaki, Shigeta Uchimura, Sho Fujiwara, Takahiko Iimura, Mie Kurihara, Kaoru Tachibana, Takatomi Otani, Yukiyasu Shimada, Kyuya Nakagawa, Miho Arai, Tohru Mabuchi
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Runtime:90 minutes
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Kenji Onishi, Kenji Murakami, Mikio Yamazaki, Shigeta Uchimura, Sho Fujiwara, Takahiko Iimura, Mie Kurihara, Kaoru Tachibana, Takatomi Otani, Yukiyasu Shimada, Kyuya Nakagawa, Miho Arai, Tohru Mabuchi
Director
Mie Kurihara
Takahiko Iimura
Kenji Murakami
Yasunori Ikeda
Miho Arai
Mikio Yamazaki
Yukiyasu Shimada
Shigeta Uchimura
Jyunya Suzuki
Kenji Onishi
Kaoru Tachibana
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