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Ride or Die Review: Miles Ahead of Japan s Stereotypical LGBTQ Films Strong female agency helps this passionate and sensual road movie blaze a trail. Maggie Lee, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail In the spirit of “Thelma and Louise,” a lesbian fugitive and the woman she’d kill for hit the road with three stilettos and a blood-red BMW in “Ride or Die.” A glammed up, erotically-charged cocktail of amour fou and true romance directed by Ryuichi Hiroki and written by Nami Kikkawa, the Netflix production gives agency to full-blooded female protagonists. That’s a rarity in Japan’s studio-dominated, cookie-cutter entertainment industry, which explains its liberating, inexhaustible energy. ....