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Close Your Eyes and Hold Me

Close Your Eyes and Hold Me

is a 1996 Japanese film based on the manga Me wo Tojite Daite by Shungicu Uchida. The film is directed by Itsumichi Isomura and stars Kumiko Takeda, Kazuya Takahashi and Natsue Yoshimura. The film focuses on a love triangle between a lowly office worker, his girlfriend, and a transgender sex worker he falls in love with.

Plot

Amane (Kazuya Takahashi) is a regular office worker who is bored with life. His girlfriend Juri (Natsue Yoshimura) pressures him to put their relationship to the next level. However, he is uncomfortable in the relationship. One day, as he is driving, he hits a woman who was walking on the road. She is taken to the hospital where she eventually recovers. Guilty of what he's done, Amane tells her to let him repay her for the accident, but she declines and disappears from the hospital. Obsessed since their encounter, he finally finds her one night at a nightclub and learns that her name is Hanabusa. He also learns that the nightclub is intended for newhalves (transgender women) and that Hanabusa (Kumiko Takeda) is a pre-op trans woman. Amane is disgusted at first, but he goes along with her for the rest of the night.

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