thank you to both you and pknumba1 for getting the news out.
the news didn't come out till they already started filming. Naoko Ogigami seems like a really affluent film director and I'm glad Toma is working with her. To be honest I'm a little afraid that this movie will fall into place of a long line of movies that exploit the trans experience for 'groundbreaking' and 'difficult' and 'awardwinning' movies but give very little back to the trans community and trans actors.
I don't know how it is like in Japan so I don't want to assume too much but people do get made fun off on TV shows and I've seen trans celebrities like Haruna Ai and that other woman who appears a lot on VS Arashi and is from the same agency as Haruna Ai make some comments on the confusion of society.
In many ways, I wish Toma wasn't the actor who is part of this process because I don't want him to take possibly advantage of a minority group's suffering to further his career but in others I am excited to see how he will carry himself through interviews and promotions. I believe in him to be self aware and the director seems very legit!
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the news didn't come out till they already started filming. Naoko Ogigami seems like a really affluent film director and I'm glad Toma is working with her. To be honest I'm a little afraid that this movie will fall into place of a long line of movies that exploit the trans experience for 'groundbreaking' and 'difficult' and 'awardwinning' movies but give very little back to the trans community and trans actors.
I don't know how it is like in Japan so I don't want to assume too much but people do get made fun off on TV shows and I've seen trans celebrities like Haruna Ai and that other woman who appears a lot on VS Arashi and is from the same agency as Haruna Ai make some comments on the confusion of society.
In many ways, I wish Toma wasn't the actor who is part of this process because I don't want him to take possibly advantage of a minority group's suffering to further his career but in others I am excited to see how he will carry himself through interviews and promotions. I believe in him to be self aware and the director seems very legit!