When I was in Japan in 1985 I noticed that people were far more (in each other's pockets) than here. Here in the U.S. there is a distance we keep from each other more than in Japan where everyone is more culturally interrelated for hundreds of years or more there.
So, it makes sense that a lesbian couple would hire Brendon Frazier to marry one of them so her parents wouldn't lose face from her actually getting together with another woman.
I could see this happening here in the U.S. too as long as they didn't try to get legally married and only did a ceremony at a church instead.
Because many couples don't legally marry as it is and ONLY marry in the church for their friends and family anyway. So, the marriage isn't legally binding in this way in a court of law.
So, you never know when you see someone getting married whether they are legally marrying or just doing a ceremony in a church in the U.S. either.
However, I could see gay couples doing this for their parents so they can go live in another city so their parents aren't shamed by their marriage too.
IT brings up many different issues when you see how this movie plays out in Japan and how this is a real thing there that actually happens in Japanese culture for many different reasons.
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