Daisuke Miura, although not particularly celebrated, is one of the most interesting filmmakers working in Japan today. The fact that he frequently writes his own scripts, which occasionally are based on his own stage plays, but most of all, that he also deals with erotic movies are definitely among the elements that make him stand out. Furthermore, that in an industry like the Japanese, where nudity, particularly of women actors can be a huge issue, he manages to have big names in his cast adds to his whole ‘legacy'. Before the rather successful “Call Boy” which featured names like Tori Matsuzaka and Ami Tomite, he managed to come with another erotic movie, “Love's Whirlpool”, featuring Sosuke Ikematsu, Mugi Kadowaki, Tasuku Emoto and Hirofumi Arai. Let us see what it is all about.
Premiering Via VOD, Digital Platforms & Film Movement Plus On June 14, 2024
The movie is based on the novel “Ai...
Premiering Via VOD, Digital Platforms & Film Movement Plus On June 14, 2024
The movie is based on the novel “Ai...
- 6/13/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Ryuhei Kitamura has had a rather interesting career. Starting with some of the cult titles of the 00s, including “Versus”, “Azumi” and “LoveDeath”, he then shot a Godzilla and a “Lupin The Third” film, then he moved to Hollywood to shoot films with Ruby Rose and Jean Reno among others, and now he is back with “Three Sisters of Tenmasou”, a manga adaptation that shows his most sensitive side as of now.
Three Sisters of Tenmasou is screening at Japan Cuts
The particular manga is “Tenmasou no Sanshimai: Sky High” by Tsutomu Takahashi (published from 2013 to 2014 by Young Jump Comics) and revolves around the said inn, a quaint out-of-time place in the small port town of Mitsuse. The establishment functions as a stopping point for people on the verge of death to decide if they want to return to the world of the living, where they are in a coma from an accident or illness,...
Three Sisters of Tenmasou is screening at Japan Cuts
The particular manga is “Tenmasou no Sanshimai: Sky High” by Tsutomu Takahashi (published from 2013 to 2014 by Young Jump Comics) and revolves around the said inn, a quaint out-of-time place in the small port town of Mitsuse. The establishment functions as a stopping point for people on the verge of death to decide if they want to return to the world of the living, where they are in a coma from an accident or illness,...
- 7/31/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Among the most anticipated films of the year, at least for fans of Takeshi Kitano and Japanese cinema in general, “Asakusa Kid” is based on the homonymous song Kitano released in 1986 and the also homonymous, autobiographical novel which was published 1988, and focuses on the beginnings of his career, much before he even considered of getting into movies.
Told in flashbacks, the main arc begins in 1965, when Take (as he was called by everybody at the time) drops out of studying to be an engineer, and joins the Asakusa France Za, a performance theater which included comic skits and strip shows. The troupe is headed by Senzaburo Fukami, aka Fukami of Asakusa, who, quite reluctantly in the beginning, becomes Take’s teacher and mentor. One of his biggest influences to the then awkward Kitano was to insist on him being an entertainer at all times, even outside the stage, and that...
Told in flashbacks, the main arc begins in 1965, when Take (as he was called by everybody at the time) drops out of studying to be an engineer, and joins the Asakusa France Za, a performance theater which included comic skits and strip shows. The troupe is headed by Senzaburo Fukami, aka Fukami of Asakusa, who, quite reluctantly in the beginning, becomes Take’s teacher and mentor. One of his biggest influences to the then awkward Kitano was to insist on him being an entertainer at all times, even outside the stage, and that...
- 12/15/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
For much of its running time, “Asakusa Kid” is a safe, traditional and easily enjoyable biographical drama about the scrappy early career of legendary Japanese comedian-actor-author-filmmaker “Beat” Takeshi Kitano. When the handsomely packaged Netflix movie injects the verve and invention Kitano is celebrated for, it shines much more brightly. Though it doesn’t offer the penetrating insight into Kitano that many viewers would be hoping for, this adaptation of his memoir by writer-director Gekidan Hitori (“A Bolt From the Blue”) does provide a respectful and touching portrait of Kitano’s mentor Senzaburo Fukami, the master entertainer whose fame and fortune declined sharply as Kitano’s career started to soar.
Published in 1988 and previously filmed in 2002 by Makoto Shinozaki (also director of the 1999 Kitano documentary “Jam Session”), “Asakusa Kid” charts the early life adventures and showbiz education of university dropout Kitano in the early 1970s. Opening in familiar biography style with...
Published in 1988 and previously filmed in 2002 by Makoto Shinozaki (also director of the 1999 Kitano documentary “Jam Session”), “Asakusa Kid” charts the early life adventures and showbiz education of university dropout Kitano in the early 1970s. Opening in familiar biography style with...
- 12/10/2021
- by Richard Kuipers
- Variety Film + TV
One of the key thoughts behind the architecture of cities is to give its citizens much needed space to meet and make it possible for each of them to reach every district. While the theory is perhaps taken into account when it comes to city planning, the reality is quite a different one, because urban geography and architecture actually divides people, and often confirms concepts such as social strata. This is not so much the fault of the planning itself, but is more the result of certain prejudices or mindsets within society, ideas that people should stick to members of their own class and should not mingle with others. In her feature “Aristocrats” Yukiko Sode explores themes such as class and gender, as well as the way the layout of cities like Tokyo makes it possible for a certain class to stay within itself.
Aristocrats is screening at Nippon Connection...
Aristocrats is screening at Nippon Connection...
- 6/2/2021
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Hanako Haibara (Mugi Kadowaki) was born and raised in Tokyo. After she gets dumped by her boyfriend she goes on blind dates to find a man to marry. Miki Tokioka (Kiko Mizuhara) was born in the countryside. She studied hard and entered a prestigious university in Tokyo. Despite this she experienced financial difficulties and works for an It company. Through a fated encounter with a man, Hanako and Miki meet.
- 1/15/2021
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
A drama based on Mariko Yamauchi’s novel.
The lives of a woman who thinks that marriage is happiness and struggles to find a partner and a woman who drops out of college and lives lazy are mixed. Yukiko Sode, such as “Good Stripes,” takes the megaphone. Mugi Kadowaki such as “Farewell Song” and Kiko Mizuhara such as “A Girl Who Makes All the Men Who Meet a Boy Who Wants to Become Tornado Girl Crazy” will appear.
The lives of a woman who thinks that marriage is happiness and struggles to find a partner and a woman who drops out of college and lives lazy are mixed. Yukiko Sode, such as “Good Stripes,” takes the megaphone. Mugi Kadowaki such as “Farewell Song” and Kiko Mizuhara such as “A Girl Who Makes All the Men Who Meet a Boy Who Wants to Become Tornado Girl Crazy” will appear.
- 12/4/2020
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
By Shikhar Verma
In the contemporary world where people within a room living together have secrets, it’s truly difficult to understand someone completely. All of us reflect two or more character traits because we are never really satisfied with the skin we live in. We hide our pain within these personalities and secrets, as we go on living without understanding our lives and reason for existence. In his debut feature film, Yoshiyuki Kishi explores the idea of existence through his protagonist Tama (Mugi Kadowaki), who stalks (or in her own words ‘tails’) a person without realising the consequences it could possibly lead to.
“Double Life” screened at the New York Asian Film Festival
Based on Mariko Koike’s novel ‘True Stories”, which was in turn based on Sophia Calle’s real life works of shadowing people without any reason, the film follows Tama, a young graduate student as she...
In the contemporary world where people within a room living together have secrets, it’s truly difficult to understand someone completely. All of us reflect two or more character traits because we are never really satisfied with the skin we live in. We hide our pain within these personalities and secrets, as we go on living without understanding our lives and reason for existence. In his debut feature film, Yoshiyuki Kishi explores the idea of existence through his protagonist Tama (Mugi Kadowaki), who stalks (or in her own words ‘tails’) a person without realising the consequences it could possibly lead to.
“Double Life” screened at the New York Asian Film Festival
Based on Mariko Koike’s novel ‘True Stories”, which was in turn based on Sophia Calle’s real life works of shadowing people without any reason, the film follows Tama, a young graduate student as she...
- 8/13/2020
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
Summer Sale
1-21 July
It’s that time of the year for the Third Window Films/Arrow Video Summer Sale!
DVDs from £4 and blurays from £7! Worldwide Shipping!
From July 1-21st
Shop now at: https://bit.ly/2BVEd9l
Upcoming Releases
3 great Japanese films available to pre-order Hanagatami
Out July 6th
In 2016, Nobuhiko Obayashi, the director of the cult Japanese film House (Hausu) was diagnosed with lung cancer and given only a few months to live. Despite not much time left, for what was supposed to be his final film he adapted Kazuo Dan’s 1937 novella Hanagatami, his passion project 40 years in the making.
In 1941, as Japan prepares its attack on Pearl Harbor, 16 year-old Toshihiko (Shunsuke Kubozuka) leaves his parents in Amsterdam and moves to the seaside town of Karatsu where his aunt Keiko (Takako Tokiwa) cares for his ailing cousin Mina (Honoka Yahagi). Immersed in the exquisite nature and phenomenal culture of Karatsu,...
1-21 July
It’s that time of the year for the Third Window Films/Arrow Video Summer Sale!
DVDs from £4 and blurays from £7! Worldwide Shipping!
From July 1-21st
Shop now at: https://bit.ly/2BVEd9l
Upcoming Releases
3 great Japanese films available to pre-order Hanagatami
Out July 6th
In 2016, Nobuhiko Obayashi, the director of the cult Japanese film House (Hausu) was diagnosed with lung cancer and given only a few months to live. Despite not much time left, for what was supposed to be his final film he adapted Kazuo Dan’s 1937 novella Hanagatami, his passion project 40 years in the making.
In 1941, as Japan prepares its attack on Pearl Harbor, 16 year-old Toshihiko (Shunsuke Kubozuka) leaves his parents in Amsterdam and moves to the seaside town of Karatsu where his aunt Keiko (Takako Tokiwa) cares for his ailing cousin Mina (Honoka Yahagi). Immersed in the exquisite nature and phenomenal culture of Karatsu,...
- 7/3/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Three upcoming Japanese films from Third Window Films are now available for preorder.
Hanagatami
Out July 6th
In 2016, Nobuhiko Obayashi, the director of the cult Japanese film House (Hausu) was diagnosed with lung cancer and given only a few months to live. Despite not much time left, for what was supposed to be his final film he adapted Kazuo Dan’s 1937 novella Hanagatami, his passion project 40 years in the making.
In 1941, as Japan prepares its attack on Pearl Harbor, 16 year-old Toshihiko (Shunsuke Kubozuka) leaves his parents in Amsterdam and moves to the seaside town of Karatsu where his aunt Keiko (Takako Tokiwa) cares for his ailing cousin Mina (Honoka Yahagi). Immersed in the exquisite nature and phenomenal culture of Karatsu, Toshihiko befriends the beautiful, Apollo-like Ukai (Shinnosuke Mitsushima), the contemplative Kira (Keishi Nagatsuka), the ingenuous Akine (Hirona Yamazaki) and the brooding Chitose (Mugi Kadowaki) as they all contend with the war’s inescapable gravitational pull.
Hanagatami
Out July 6th
In 2016, Nobuhiko Obayashi, the director of the cult Japanese film House (Hausu) was diagnosed with lung cancer and given only a few months to live. Despite not much time left, for what was supposed to be his final film he adapted Kazuo Dan’s 1937 novella Hanagatami, his passion project 40 years in the making.
In 1941, as Japan prepares its attack on Pearl Harbor, 16 year-old Toshihiko (Shunsuke Kubozuka) leaves his parents in Amsterdam and moves to the seaside town of Karatsu where his aunt Keiko (Takako Tokiwa) cares for his ailing cousin Mina (Honoka Yahagi). Immersed in the exquisite nature and phenomenal culture of Karatsu, Toshihiko befriends the beautiful, Apollo-like Ukai (Shinnosuke Mitsushima), the contemplative Kira (Keishi Nagatsuka), the ingenuous Akine (Hirona Yamazaki) and the brooding Chitose (Mugi Kadowaki) as they all contend with the war’s inescapable gravitational pull.
- 6/16/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Akihiko Shiota – attended Rikkyo University, where he was in a film club with other students such as Makoto Shinozaki and Shinji Aoyama and began making 8mm films in the tradition of other Rikkyo students like Kiyoshi Kurosawa. His independent films were recognized at Pia Film Festival and he began writing film criticism and working as an assistant for Kurosawa and other filmmakers. He also studied scriptwriting under Atsushi Yamatoya and worked as the cinematographer for films by Takayoshi Yamaguchi. His films ‘Moonlight Whispers’ and ‘Don’t Look Back’, both released in 1999 earned Shiota the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award. ‘Don’t Look Back’ won also the Jury Prize at the Three Continents Festival. ‘Harmful Insect‘ (2002) was screened at the Venice Film Festival and earned two more awards at the Three Continents Festival. His first major commercial film ‘Yomigaeri’ was the fourth biggest grossing Japanese film in 2003. ‘Canary’ (2005) inspired by the...
- 4/22/2020
- by Nikodem Karolak
- AsianMoviePulse
Masaya Ozaki is a well-rounded scriptwriter. His first writing credit dates back to 1995. However, it is in 2010 that he added director to his skillset. His first work as a writer/director was “Randebû!”. “Her Sketchbook” is his second feature. His impressive background is perhaps why the film is well-written and has a nice pace.
“Her Sketchbook” is screening as part of The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme
Mami Konuma, twenty-something, works in a factory, is clumsy, seems to live in her own world, and – greatest sign of social inadequacy- she really likes mangas. After leaving her job at the factory, her worried father finds her a job as a video game tester. One day, as she is eating in the staircase, she overhears Yabe, who is part of the production team and needs a drawing to be revised. Without thinking too much, she becomes a Secret Revision Savior for the young man.
“Her Sketchbook” is screening as part of The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme
Mami Konuma, twenty-something, works in a factory, is clumsy, seems to live in her own world, and – greatest sign of social inadequacy- she really likes mangas. After leaving her job at the factory, her worried father finds her a job as a video game tester. One day, as she is eating in the staircase, she overhears Yabe, who is part of the production team and needs a drawing to be revised. Without thinking too much, she becomes a Secret Revision Savior for the young man.
- 2/9/2020
- by Oriana Virone
- AsianMoviePulse
Ken Ninomiya was born in 1991 in Osaka. He started his career in film in 2014, with two shorts and he did his feature debut in 2015 with Slum-Polis. Starting with his third film, “The Limit of Sleeping Beauty”, he garnered international attention, with the movie screening in Hong Kong, BiFan (Korea) and Japan FIlmfest Hamburg.
On the occasion of his latest film, “Chiwawa” winning the Best Japanese Film of 2019 in our list, we speak with him about adapting Kyoko Okazaki’s manga, show business and youth in Japan, working with Tadanobu Asano, Chiaki Kuriyama and Mugi Kadowaki, and other topics
Translation by Nikodem Karolak
Why did you decide to adapt Kyoko Okazaki’s manga? Did you find more difficult adapting the work of someone else than writing your own script?
“Chiwawa” is a short comic book that consists merely of thirty four pages. However, at the time I read it, it conveyed...
On the occasion of his latest film, “Chiwawa” winning the Best Japanese Film of 2019 in our list, we speak with him about adapting Kyoko Okazaki’s manga, show business and youth in Japan, working with Tadanobu Asano, Chiaki Kuriyama and Mugi Kadowaki, and other topics
Translation by Nikodem Karolak
Why did you decide to adapt Kyoko Okazaki’s manga? Did you find more difficult adapting the work of someone else than writing your own script?
“Chiwawa” is a short comic book that consists merely of thirty four pages. However, at the time I read it, it conveyed...
- 1/17/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Beginning 2000s, director Akihiko Shiota emerged as part of a new wave of Japanese filmmakers portraying teenage alienation in postmodern Japan. Like many other famous directors of his generation, Shiota was a student of Shigehiko Hasumi at Tokyo Film School. Though less prolific than his former classmates Shinji Aoyama (“Eureka” 2000) and Kiyoshi Kurosawa (“Cure” 1997), Shiota produced impressive movies such as “Moonlight Whispers” (1999), “Harmful Insect” (2001) and “Canary” (2004), which all deal with young outcasts and a lack of parental presence. In the course of his career, Shiota shifted his focus from serious indie dramas to sentimental commercial productions and effect-filled entertainment (“Dororo” 2007). He finally ended up in the genre of medical drama with the TBS tearjerker “I Just Wanna Hug You” (2014). What may look like a decline of artistic demand, is proven wrong by Shiota’s newest film “Farewell Song” (2019).
“Farewell Song” was screened on Japannual Film Festival in Vienna.
Although Shiota...
“Farewell Song” was screened on Japannual Film Festival in Vienna.
Although Shiota...
- 10/15/2019
- by Alexander Knoth
- AsianMoviePulse
The third edition of the Japannual Film Festival takes place from 1st to 6th of October in Vienna. This year, the festival celebrates the 150th anniversary of Austrian-Japanese diplomatic relations with an excellent selection of films, showing the highlights of the bygone year. Besides the modern cinema, Japannual features two movies of the infamous director Koji Wakamatsu accompanied by the short films of video artist Yuri Muraoka.
The opening film “Blue Hour” (2019), a multi-layered comedy about a sudden family visit, is the first feature by female director Yuko Hakota and was already celebrated at the Nippon Connection Festival for its portrayal of strong female characters.
Strong female characters can also be seen in Kosai Sekine’s “Love at Least” (2018) and Momoko Fukuda’s “My Father, My Bride” (2019). Both directors will be present at the festival and so it the actress Shuri, who gives an intriguing performance of a mentally ill...
The opening film “Blue Hour” (2019), a multi-layered comedy about a sudden family visit, is the first feature by female director Yuko Hakota and was already celebrated at the Nippon Connection Festival for its portrayal of strong female characters.
Strong female characters can also be seen in Kosai Sekine’s “Love at Least” (2018) and Momoko Fukuda’s “My Father, My Bride” (2019). Both directors will be present at the festival and so it the actress Shuri, who gives an intriguing performance of a mentally ill...
- 9/28/2019
- by Alexander Knoth
- AsianMoviePulse
Creating an amalgamate movie from other movies is occasionally a very hard job, but the result can be great, as Tarantino has proven time and time again, particularly with “Kill Bill”. Ken Ninomiya took the concept a step even further, by using Kyoko Okazaki’s manga as its base in order to shoot a film that loans elements from “Helter Skelter” and “River’s Edge (also based on Okazaki’s works), “The World of Kanako”, but most surprisingly, “Spring Breakers” and even a bit of “Velvet Goldmine”. Let us see how he fared.
“Chiwawa” is screening at Fantasia International Film Festival
The story unfolds in a number of different timelines. Immediately as the film begins, we hear one of the protagonists, Miki, talking about the titular character, Chiwawa, just before we learn that her body was found mutilated. In the next scene, the timeline switches to the past, when Miki...
“Chiwawa” is screening at Fantasia International Film Festival
The story unfolds in a number of different timelines. Immediately as the film begins, we hear one of the protagonists, Miki, talking about the titular character, Chiwawa, just before we learn that her body was found mutilated. In the next scene, the timeline switches to the past, when Miki...
- 7/13/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
During the latest years, Kazuya Shiraishi has emerged as one of the prominent names of the “entertaining” Japanese film, with works like “The Blood of Wolves” and “Birds Without Names” among others. This tendency of his continues in “Dare to Stop Us”, a rather appealing look at the work of Koji Wakamatsu (Shiraishi actually worked for his production company), through the eyes of an almost completely unknown assistant, Megumi Yoshizumi.
“Dare to Stop Us” is screening atUdine Far East Film Festival
The story begins in 1969, when Megumi, 21-year old at the time, manages to get to Wakamatsu’s “family” as assistant director, through a common acquaintance known as the Spook. While there (with there meaning an office where everyone gatheres to organize their movies), she meets a number of “figures” except the eccentric Wakamatsu, including Masao Adachi, Haruhiko Arai and Kenji Takama, who eventually becomes a love interest. At the beginning,...
“Dare to Stop Us” is screening atUdine Far East Film Festival
The story begins in 1969, when Megumi, 21-year old at the time, manages to get to Wakamatsu’s “family” as assistant director, through a common acquaintance known as the Spook. While there (with there meaning an office where everyone gatheres to organize their movies), she meets a number of “figures” except the eccentric Wakamatsu, including Masao Adachi, Haruhiko Arai and Kenji Takama, who eventually becomes a love interest. At the beginning,...
- 5/3/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
During the latest years, Kazuya Shiraishi has emerged as one of the prominent names of the “entertaining” Japanese film, with works like “The Blood of Wolves” and “Birds Without Names” among others. This tendency of his continues in “Dare to Stop Us”, a rather appealing look to the work of Koji Wakamatsu (Shiraishi actually worked for his production company), through the eyes of an almost completely unknown assistant, Megumi Yoshizumi.
“Dare to Stop Us” screened at Helsinki Cine Aasia 2019
The story begins in 1969, when Megumi, 21-year old at the time, manages to get to Wakamatsu’s family as assistant director, through a common acquaintance known as the Spook. While there (with there meaning an office where everyone gathered to organize their movies), she meets a number of “figures” except the eccentric Wakamatsu, including Masao Adachi, Haruhiko Arai and Kenji Takama who eventually becomes a love interest. At the beginning, Wakamatsu ignores her,...
“Dare to Stop Us” screened at Helsinki Cine Aasia 2019
The story begins in 1969, when Megumi, 21-year old at the time, manages to get to Wakamatsu’s family as assistant director, through a common acquaintance known as the Spook. While there (with there meaning an office where everyone gathered to organize their movies), she meets a number of “figures” except the eccentric Wakamatsu, including Masao Adachi, Haruhiko Arai and Kenji Takama who eventually becomes a love interest. At the beginning, Wakamatsu ignores her,...
- 3/18/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Directed by Emiko Hiramatsu and starring Erika Toda, the feature is based on a true story.
Japan’s Gaga is launching international sales at Filmart on Organ, the second feature from Emiko Hiramatsu (Seven Days Of Sunflower And Puppy) who worked with Yoji Yamada as co-screenwriter and assistant director on films including What A Wonderful Family!.
Starring Erika Toda (Code Blue) and Sakurako Ohara (The Liar And His Lover), the film is based on a true story from the Second World War when young nursery school teachers evacuated dozens of children from Tokyo to save their lives. Under the threat of bombing,...
Japan’s Gaga is launching international sales at Filmart on Organ, the second feature from Emiko Hiramatsu (Seven Days Of Sunflower And Puppy) who worked with Yoji Yamada as co-screenwriter and assistant director on films including What A Wonderful Family!.
Starring Erika Toda (Code Blue) and Sakurako Ohara (The Liar And His Lover), the film is based on a true story from the Second World War when young nursery school teachers evacuated dozens of children from Tokyo to save their lives. Under the threat of bombing,...
- 3/17/2019
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
If there is a theme that often reappears in Nobuhiko Obayashi’s oeuvre, it is the impact of war. While this theme was already present in his very first full-length feature “House” (1977), which has to read as a symbolic expression of the destruction of the A-bomb, it seems to have become a more urgent matter for him in the last couple of years. “Kono Sora no Hana”, a narrative he directed in 2012, concerned the bombing of Nagaoka, and “No No Nanananoka”, which he made two years later, handled Japan’s wartime responsibility.
With “Hanagatami”, a project Obayashi abandoned 40 years ago to make “House” instead and his third anti-war movie in a row, he once again underlines his personal motivation to carry out the dream and philosophy of the late Akira Kurosawa: to achieve world peace with the power of the cinematographical narrative. This time, by adapting Kazuo Dan’s...
With “Hanagatami”, a project Obayashi abandoned 40 years ago to make “House” instead and his third anti-war movie in a row, he once again underlines his personal motivation to carry out the dream and philosophy of the late Akira Kurosawa: to achieve world peace with the power of the cinematographical narrative. This time, by adapting Kazuo Dan’s...
- 6/2/2018
- by Pieter-Jan Van Haecke
- AsianMoviePulse
Yoshihiro Izumi penned Todome no Kisu a diverged from the typical Japanese drama series and Shintaro Sugawara co-directed it with Hiroto Akashi. The story follows Otaro Dojima (Kento Yamazaki), an extremely popular host going by the name Eight. Otaro utilises his numerous charms, intellectual and physical ones, to get anything and everything he wants from his female customers. A tragic event in the past that caused the death of his younger brother, his father to go to jail, and the fixation of his mother to find her lost child, lead Otaro to take the aforementioned path of earning easy money and forming relationships without strings attached.
Otaro’s eagerness for more money is fumed up, when at the bar he works, a group of female friends arrives and among them is Mikoto Namiki (Yuko Araki), the heiress of the Namiki Group. He creates a plan to approach her,...
Otaro’s eagerness for more money is fumed up, when at the bar he works, a group of female friends arrives and among them is Mikoto Namiki (Yuko Araki), the heiress of the Namiki Group. He creates a plan to approach her,...
- 5/23/2018
- by Maria Georgiou
- AsianMoviePulse
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.