Zach and Emily extract the sublimity and terror of love in Utada Hikaru's perennially misunderstood 2018 masterpiece 初恋 HATSUKOI and Hashiguchi Ryosuke's 1995 gay tragedy 渚のシンドバッド LIKE GRAINS OF SAND. Rape, eroticism in death, romantic crossdressing, mistaking your best friend for your lover, the smell of a man lingering in your bedroom, mourning, grief, locking your love away from the activists outside your doorstep, time in reverse, funneling your emotion through unavailable channels.

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