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Embracing Love: A Cicada in Winter

Embracing Love: A Cicada in Winter

20051h 30m

Overview

During the late Tokugawa period, tensions between the bakufu and Chōshū clan are rising due to arguments over how to deal with foreigners in Japan. However, unlike the rest of the Chōshū clan members, Touma Kusaka wants Japan to develop good relations with foreign nations. To achieve this, he attempts to learn English behind his clan's back. A man named Keiichirou Akizuki decides to become Kusaka's teacher, but their relationship soon grows into something stronger, despite the fact that Akizuki works for Kusaka's clan's enemy, the Tokugawa bakufu.

Directed by Yoshihisa Matsumoto
Produced by Hiroaki Inoue
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Top Cast

Toshiyuki Morikawa

Toshiyuki Morikawa

(voice)

Shin-ichiro Miki

Shin-ichiro Miki

(voice)

Showtaro Morikubo

Showtaro Morikubo

(voice)

Themes & Keywords

lgbt

About Embracing Love: A Cicada in Winter

Embracing Love: A Cicada in Winter is a animation film released in 2005 exploring themes of lgbt. Directed by Yoshihisa Matsumoto, it stars Toshiyuki Morikawa, Shin-ichiro Miki, Showtaro Morikubo. During the late Tokugawa period, tensions between the bakufu and Chōshū clan are rising due to arguments over how to deal with foreigners in Japan. However, unlike the rest of the Chōshū clan members, Touma Kusaka wants Japan to develop good relations with foreign nations. To achieve this, he attempts to learn English behind his clan's back. A man named Keiichirou Akizuki decides to become Kusaka's teacher, but their relationship soon grows into something stronger, despite the fact that Akizuki works for Kusaka's clan's enemy, the Tokugawa bakufu.

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