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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
A tender, bittersweet portrait of a Tokyo couple told through memories, with the same attention to ordinary rituals, changing aspirations, and how shared tastes slowly become shared history.
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Why this pick
Its lonely young Tokyo workers find tentative intimacy amid precarious jobs and urban exhaustion, balancing offbeat humour, lyrical city imagery, and an unsentimental hopefulness.
03
Why this pick
This gently interwoven romance finds emotional weight in chance meetings and small domestic gestures, sharing the warm, observant interest in how love develops over years.
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Why this pick
A funny, inward-looking adult romance about a woman negotiating independence, work, friendship, and new affection; its intimate everyday texture suits the reflective side of the original.
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Why this pick
A beautifully seasonal Japanese love story that lets a relationship unfold through everyday outings and life transitions, delivering a similarly nostalgic, emotionally open romantic sweep.
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01 / THE STORY
Missing the last train of the day on Tokyo’s Keio Line at Meidaimae Station, college student Mugi Yamane encounters Kinu Hachiya. Finding they have near identical tastes in music and movies, the couple quickly hit it off and embark on a romance that has them move in together when they graduate from college. They work temp jobs as they interview for full-time employment. They pick up a stray cat. Even as the iconic Shibuya Parco store closes and the mainstay TV show, SMAP×SMAP, airs its last show, Mugi and Kinu seek a status quo. They are inseparable and spend “the best 5 years ever!” hoping they’ll always be together. The many seasons they spend together will rekindle your memories of a halcyon time when the world was full of love.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
山音 麦
八谷 絹
加持航平
八谷早智子
八谷芳明
山音広太郎
羽田凜
水埜亘
