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Of Love & Law

Country: Japan | UK | France, Language: Japanese, 94 mins

  • Director: Hikaru Toda

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Whoever said there is no such a thing as a good lawyer ought to meet this couple!

Both under-paid, self-employed lawyers...really, for the greater good, this Japanese gay couple open their hearts and minds for all the world to see. They are complete opposites...who are perfectly synched to each - there is a certain tragi-comedic vein to their relationship. In places, it's emotional, it's funny...but, most of all, it's utterly, utterly charming.

If a documentary's raison d'être is to enlighten, educate and entertain...then, Of Love & Law fulfills the criteria admirably. Learn about Japanese culture and ' reading the air' - hear some pretty nifty legal arguments and listen to some truly awful singing!

An affectionate film that will warm the cockles of your heart. Quite, quite lovely.


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Fumi and Kazu have a lot to teach us about love. When they decide to stick their necks out and create the first LGBTQ+ law firm in Japan, they are drawn into the lives of people searching for protection and support. Despite their own relationship having no legal status, they work pro-bono for long hours, all the while foster-parenting a teenager. We meet with a colourful cast of misfits, dissidents and artists – from a delightful eccentric being prosecuted for her kitschy vagina sculptures, to a troubled outsider who, as the child of an ‘immoral woman’, has no legal identity. A saying is repeated throughout the film, that one must ‘read the air’ – conform to the tacit conservatism that forbids sexual diversity. With love, humour and serious legal chops, Fumi and Kazu do exactly the opposite.

Jay Bernard