“LOVE WILL WIN IN THE END” – Japan Times

Fumi and Kazu are partners in love and law; they run the first law firm in Japan set up by an openly gay couple. As lawyers driven by their own experience of being ​outsiders​, they attract a range of clients who reveal the hidden diversity of a country that prides itself for collective obedience, politeness and conformity. Their ‘misfit’ clients include a teacher who was dismissed for not singing the national anthem, and Rokudenashiko – the vagina artist, sued by the police for obscenity, for trying to escape the country’s patriarchal systems in a vagina-shaped canoe. Complete with cats and musical interludes, Of Love & Law is a story of family, justice and love…

A film by Hikaru Toda

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LATEST NEWS

Mark Kermode introduces Of Love & Law as his film of the week on BFI Player:
“a fascinating watch, alternately touching and amusing, uplifting and heartbreaking…”
Watch the review in full here,

The Evening Standard’s lists Of Love & Law as one of ten “LGBTQ+ documentaries you need to watch”.

 

AVAILABLE TO WATCH ON DEMAND

  

UPCOMING SCREENINGS

PAST SCREENINGS

21 February – Preview + Q&A x Japan Now – Curzon Soho, London

22 February – Preview + Q&A x Japan Now  – Home, Manchester

24 February – Preview + Q&A  – DocHouse, London

25 February – Preview + Q&A x Japan Now  – Showroom, Sheffield

26 February – Preview + Q&A  – BFI, London

27 February – Preview + Q&A – Queen’s Film Theatre, Belfast

28 February – Preview + Q&A x Fringe! Flings  – Genesis Cinema, London

UK RELEASE – 1 MARCH 2019

1 March – Q&A x BEATS – The Rio, London

1 – 6 March – DocHouse, London

2 – 6 March – Kiln Theatre, London

2 – 6 March – The Rio, London

3 March – The Mockingbird, Birmingham

4 – 5 March – GFT, Glasgow

4 – 6 March – Watershed, Bristol

7 – 8 March – Borderlines Film Festival, Hereford

10 & 13 March – Square Chapel, Halifax

15 – 21 March – Eden Court, Inverness

30 March – RAI Film Festival, Bristol

1-2 April – MAC, Birmingham

10 April – Dungannon Film Club, N. Ireland

12 April – Lighthouse Cinema, Dublin (Japanese Film Festival)

17 April – Black Box Belfast (Belfast Film Festival)

17 April –Fermanagh Film Club

17 April – Triskel Arts Centre, Cork City (Japanese Film Festival)

17 April -Embassy in Japan UK – London

26 April – Subterranean Film Club (Omagh)

3 June – Lexi Film School + intro by Elhum Shakerifar – Lexi Cinema, London

11 July – Haslemere Hall + Q&A with DOP Jason Brooks – Haslemere, Surrey

13 July – Wrightwood 659 Museum – Chicago, USA

26 September – Cinema For All Yorkshire – Whitby, UK

13 November – Bremen University – Bremen, Germany

2 December – Cinema For All Yorkshire – Scarborough, UK

19 February – Centre for Contemporary Arts – Glasgow, UK

 

The previews at Curzon Soho, Home Manchester and Showroom Sheffield were in partnership with the Japan Foundation and Modern Culture, as part of the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme and Japan Now.

    London preview screenings were supported by Film Hub London, managed by Film London. Proud to be a partner of the BFI Film Audience Network, funded by the National Lottery.

JAPANESE RELEASE 

(All screenings with English subtitles)
More info on the Japanese release website here

PAST FESTIVALS

October 2017 – World Premiere – Tokyo International Film Festival
March 2018 – Hong Kong International Film Festival
March 2018 – BFI Flare Film Festival, London
May 2018 – Ginmaku Japanese Film Festival, Zurich
June 2018 – Nippon Connection, Frankfurt & Wiesbadene
June 2018 – Cinetopia Film Festival, Michigan, USA
June 2018 – Valletta Film Festival, Malta
June 2018 – Frameline Film Festival, San Francisco, USA
July 2018 – Galway Film Fleadh, Ireland
July 2018 – Japan Cuts, New York, USA
August 2018 – EIGASAI Japanese Film Festival, Philippines
August 2018 – Taiwan International Queer Film Festival, Taiwan
September 2018 – Camera Japan, Rotterdam
October 2018 – Love & Pride Film Festival, Singapore
October 2018 – London Film Festival
October 2018 – Festival des neuen japanischen Films, Germany