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Ogawacho Serenade (2014)
小川町セレナーデ
Manami runs the snack bar “Snack Bar Sayoko.” She raised her daughter Sayoko (Izumi Fujimoto) alone. Her father is known as Angel and works as a drag queen dancer. Sayoko doesn't know that Angel is her father. Manami and Angel have been longtime friends. After graduating from high school, Sayoko moved to Tokyo, but after experiencing several failed romances she goes back to her mother. Sayoko becomes aware that her mom's snack bar is having financial difficulties and may shut down. She decides to open an Okama bar (drag queen bar) and asks her mom's longtime friend Angel for help
🏳️🌈 This touching Japanese comedy-drama explicitly incorporates a prominent queer matrix, tracking a bar owner mother whose life intertwines with a charismatic transgender woman performance artist.
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