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Japanese Director Urara Matsubayashi on Speaking Up About Sexual Assault, Gender Gap: ‘#MeToo Is Not Restricted to One Country, but the Entire World’
Urara Matsubayashi felt it was vital to channel the pain of her own experience as a sex assault survivor into her craft, which led to 'Blue Imagine.'
While it is far from easy to broach topics relating to sexual assault in a still-conservative Japan, actor-turned-director Urara Matsubayashi felt it was vital to channel the pain and frustrations of her own experience as a survivor into her craft. Such a process led to “Blue Imagine,” Matsubayashi’s directorial debut about a young actor who finds refuge in a safe house in the wake of a violent assault. “Female victims are in a very weak position, and I wanted women in the film to help each other and stay together throughout.” Matsubayashi highlights it was vital to have characters who validated each other’s reactions to trauma, particularly when there is still such a high stigma about speaking up and denouncing cases of sexual violence.
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