Let Me Hear It Barefoot

Movie

2021

2h 7m

Japanese

Drama

User Score:

6.8

Let Me Hear It Barefoot

Movie

2021

2h 7m

Japanese

Drama

Naomi, a student dropout, only believes in things he can touch. However, when he really wants to touch someone, he recoils. As is the case when he befriends Maki, a happy-go-lucky young man who lives with Midori, a blind woman who dreamily expounds about places she has never been. When Midori becomes seriously ill, Maki and Naomi send her tapes from an imaginary trip around the world. Their relationship becomes more intimate whilst recording, but they only dare engage in rough, painful horseplay. Hesitations, feints, social pressure and awkwardness colours this sensitively told tale of two young men as they become intimate with one another – a rare story of a gay relationship in Japanese indie film.

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Cast

Maki

Naomi

Midori

Naomi’s father

Directed By: Riho Kudo

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miguelreina says...

2 years ago

[IFFR'22] A reflection on the emotional repression of Japanese society through a story that flirts with homosexual desire. But the director establishes a distance that does not fully develop her claims, as shy as Naomi's own character, and the story ends up being a loop of repetitions (fighting games in which desire is diluted through physical contact), which prevents a more complete development of the characters.

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