[6] Japanese female director, Yuki Tanada, looks towards defining gender role and space for women in her work.
This in turn creates selfhood and individuality to these characters that want to fulfill a wishful life even though their actions are frequently problematic.
[7] Looking at her debut film Moon and Cherry, a young university male Tadokoro, who after joining an erotic writing club, becomes involved with a girl named Mayumi.
It gives more attention to Tanada's agency to recognize individualistic values that woman carry whether it is with their career, body, mind, or life.
The main character, Suzuko, before her migration away from home is constantly dragged by her problems with men; her imprisonment, comes after she angrily reacts after her potential male housemate kills her cat.
Her retaliation by throwing away all his possessions then lands her in jail, and she refuses to pose as the housemate’s girlfriend even when told by the police that this would result in a less severe penalty.
[8] That relativity humanizes her to be a character that reaches a wider audience and speaks to a woman's determination.
Her problems branching from multiple male figures in this film thrusts her determination to remain independent; to not be tied to a man, and be a strong, desired woman.