Plastic Beauty; is the viewer supposed to view Tohyama Sensei as a lesbian? Or am I misunderstanding?
SPOILERS PERCHANCE (I’m on episode 5 right now)
I would like to preface this by saying I recently started watching Plastic Beauty as some laid back Japanese language immersion practice. I currently live in Tokyo and am a patron of two cosmetic clinics. My question is more so curiosity/ in case I missed some nuance somewhere.
Who is the woman whom lives in Tohyama Sensei’s house with her? Episode one we see Tohyama getting ready for work and there’s another woman having breakfast with her in the kitchen. At this point I assumed she was maybe a personal assistant. Yet later, episode 4 (I think), we see the same women sleeping in Tohyama’s bed next to her. Tohyama wakes up during the middle of the night, frustrated, and we see a second person, this mystery woman, sleeping next to her.
I feel like I missed something during the series and I can’t find it. It’s such a minor detail, whether this second woman is her partner, helper, friend, idk.. is seemingly not important to the larger picture of the film. It seems to be a super minor character. I guess I’m just curious because I genuinely thought that was her personal assistant until I saw them sleeping in the same bed. Who is that? Does anyone know?