Film
Haruhei and his wife Kinuko are about to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. They live in their small apartment overlooking the sunlit front yard that blooms with seasonal flowers. Haruhei is youthful beyond his years, traveling around Japan speaking on his experiences with leprosy as a former patient himself. They met at a leprosarium where he was forcefully admitted under Japan’s inhumane isolation policy for leprosy patients that lasted over 90 years. as their 50th wedding anniversary approaches, Kinuko notices changes in her health.Having been for so long the pillar of the family, Kinuko comes face to face with her own mortality and Haruhei is forced to recognise the magnitude of her presence as she is admitted to hospital.
Fumi and Kazu are partners in love and law; they run the first law firm in Japan set up by an openly gay couple. As lawyers driven by their own experience of being outsiders, they attract a range of clients who reveal the hidden diversity of a country that prides itself for collective obedience, politeness and conformity. Tired of being silenced and made to feel invisible, the lawyers and their misfit clients expose and challenge the archaic status quo that deems them second-class citizens. With the backdrop of civil liberties under attack, the film poses universal questions about what it takes to be an individual, what it means to be a minority and what role a family plays in our increasingly polarised world.