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An Iranian Woman Finds Love in the Japanese Lesbian Drama West North West
West North West, directed by Takuro Nakamura, follows a Tehran exchange student Naima and her romantic triangle. Nakamura was kind enough to answer some of our questions about the film.
The Advocate : Where does the story originate from? Takuro Nakamura: It comes from a very personal experience. Over 10 years ago, there was a woman I used to see. She understood me extremely well and showered me with a love that I had never felt before. However, I was unable to reciprocate that love. I don't know why. I was probably afraid of that kind of love.
At the same time, I began to have feelings towards a certain man. We were in the same year at a vocational school and his carefree smile left an impression on me. Again, this was a feeling that I had never felt before. Back then I was still young and very confused. I was embarrassed with myself and even clearly remember being creeped out with myself. I projected these chaotic feelings that I felt back then onto the three characters in the film and wanted to imprint these feelings into this movie.
Why did you want to tell this story? Same-sex or different-sex, I think that to like and love somebody else is a positive. However, by looking at the negative sides that hide within the positive — such as pain, conflict, anger, jealousy, envy and hate — I wanted to think about the what it means to truly think of and care about others.
Why is the film titled West North West? West North West is the direction that one prays towards Mecca from Tokyo.
The film puts an Iranian leading character in the Japanese context. What’s unique about it, and why chose an Iranian character? Perhaps it's that the person who stirs up Naima's heart more than ever before happened to be a Japanese woman with a different cultural background, values, and even tastes from hers. To speak about why I made the character Iranian... that was because only Sahel Rosa could play the role of Naima. Sahel's being is Naima herself and the only person who could give this character flesh was Sahel.
Is lesbian love subdued in Japanese culture? There has been an increasing acceptance towards not just lesbians, but LGBTQ in general here. It's possible to say that it is a result of the concerned parties raising their voices and demanding their rights. However, social welfare issues such as same-sex marriage and partnership laws are still very much premature. I hope that society will become one in which people can live with their loved ones without fear.
West North West will premiere at Japan Society's JAPAN CUTS festival in New York City on Saturday, July 22. Find more information here .
Video credit: West North West © West North West

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When I looked up "lesbian" in jisho.org, I came across the six kanji term " 女性同性愛者 ", which I'm concerned may sound too formal or clinical, like using "homosexual" as a noun in English, plus katakana words of varying lengths.
The English edition of Wiktionary doesn't have a Japanese language translation for "lesbian". Looking up weblio doesn't help much, because the entries for the English word "lesbian" mainly provide information addressing native Japanese speakers.
The accepted answer on Yahoo answers gives a couple of different answers, and doesn't seem that authoritative: https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070712193145AAHuB7J
I would prefer a term that's acceptable for polite, respectful but friendly conversation.
In most of the cases レズビアン or simply レズ will generally suffice in conversations. As you guessed correctly, 同性愛者 sounds formal and stiff, and 性的少数者 /LGBT would sound even more technical and formal.
So depending on who you are talking to, you may want to play it safe and describe it indirectly (eg "～は女の人が好き ") instead.
百合ゆり (lit. "lily") is another indirect term for this, but AFAIK this is mainly preferred in otaku-ish, fictional contexts. There is even a magazine for this.
レズ can be seen as a bit derogatory since it's outside of the community and could come from source which are disapproving. From within the lesbian community, ビアン is more usual or neutral. If you're specifically keen to speak of lesbians in terms of their gender presentation, more masculine presenting lesbians are often called ボイ and lesbians who present a softer, more 'femme'identity might be called ネコ .
性的少数者 or "sexual minority" is the correct translation of LGBT. The L in LGBT being lesbian, thus a likely answer is レズビアン , if you look at the examples (shown below and in the link) it is used in a neutral context. That being said, I think for all these terms everyone has their own perception of it and there is no "correct" answer other than to ask the person you are referring to which term they prefer.
offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine
English writer whose novel about a lesbian relationship was banned in Britain for many years (1883-1943)
英国の作家で、レスビアンの関係に関する小説が長年英国で禁止された（ 1883 年 −1943 年 )
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