OF Love & Law - feature

Associate Producer - KHAULA MALIK

Directed by HIKARU TODA
Produced by ELHUM SHAKERIFAR

SYNOPSIS

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. Their ‘misfit’ clients include a teacher who was dismissed for not singing the national anthem, and Rokudenashiko – the vagina artist, sued by the police for obscenity, for trying to escape the country’s patriarchal systems in a vagina-shaped canoe. Complete with cats and musical interludes, Of Love & Law is a story of family, justice and love…

FESTIVALS

October 2017 – World Premiere – Tokyo International Film Festival
March 2018 – Hong Kong International Film Festival
March 2018 – BFI Flare Film Festival, London
May 2018 – Ginmaku Japanese Film Festival, Zurich
June 2018 – Nippon Connection, Frankfurt & Wiesbadene
June 2018 – Cinetopia Film Festival, Michigan, USA
June 2018 – Valletta Film Festival, Malta
June 2018 – Frameline Film Festival, San Francisco, USA
July 2018 – Galway Film Fleadh, Ireland
July 2018 – Japan Cuts, New York, USA
August 2018 – EIGASAI Japanese Film Festival, Philippines
August 2018 – Taiwan International Queer Film Festival, Taiwan
September 2018 – Camera Japan, Rotterdam
October 2018 – Love & Pride Film Festival, Singapore
October 2018 – London Film Festival
October 2018 – Festival des neuen japanischen Films, Germany