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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Its tightly engineered identity mix-up has the same pleasure in accumulating coincidences, deadpan criminal complications, and sympathetic people whose separate problems gradually lock together.
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A playful multi-strand construction connects seemingly unrelated lives across time, balancing oddball humor and mounting suspense with the satisfaction of an elegantly assembled narrative.
03
Why this pick
For the exuberant crime-comedy side of your pick: a stylized, offbeat ensemble of strangers converges around a hotel scheme, told with fractured viewpoints and mischievous visual energy.
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Why this pick
This gentle urban comedy shares the pleasure of watching awkward, imperfect adults collide by chance, with dry humor, romantic disappointment, and an affectionate eye for minor characters.
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Why this pick
Less puzzle-driven but similarly Tokyo-specific, it turns an unlikely encounter into a deadpan, episodic journey full of fleeting side characters, melancholy warmth, and comic observation.
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01 / THE STORY
In one long Friday evening, Takeshi Miyata (Yasuhi Nakamura), a straight-arrow businessman, will encounter a number of people (some only fleetingly) who have intertwining fates. The plot of the film is presented in succession first from the point of view of Maki Kuwata (Reika Kirishima), a young woman disappointed in love, then from Takeshi's point of view, then of his friend, Yusuke Kanda (Sō Yamanaka), a private detective, then of Takeshi's former girlfriend, Ayumi Kurata (Yuka Itaya), then of a wannabe-tough Yakuza, Asai (Kisuke Yamashita).
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Takeshi Miyata
Ayumi Kurata
