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A Crimson Star (2018)

真っ赤な星

JP Drama

When fourteen-year-old Yo is hospitalized she gradually develops feelings for Yayoi who is a nurse tending her. However, Yayoi leaves the nursing profession in favour of prostitution. Yo is disappointed, but turns to the older woman after she is the subject of unrequited love from her mother's man. The two grow closer and Yo is about to find out what motivates Yayoi.

🏳️‍🌈 This gentle Japanese independent film tracks an intensely close, emotionally resonant, and beautifully sáfic-coded healing bond between a lonely girl and an older woman in a hospital.