“If you don’t give up, you’re not a failure, are you?”
KIYOHARA KAYA AS MATSUSHITA RIKO.
Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku
If you want to read my review of Wotakoi, read this post. In ヲタクに恋は難しい, Narumi was abandoned by her ex and decided to hide her true self from everyone, until she reconnected with a dear childhood friend and felt she could trust him enough to let her guard down.
Continue reading “Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku”Night Flower
If you want to read my review of Night Flower, read this post. In ナイトフラワー, Driven by financial hardship, Natsuki, a single mother of two and Tamae, a promising MMA fighter, begins trafficking drugs on the streets of Tokyo to make a living.
Continue reading “Night Flower”National Treasure
If you want to read my review of National Treasure, read this post. In 国宝, Kikuo, the son of a killed Yakuza boss, is adopted by a family of Kabuki actors and competes for decades with his adoptive brother for the title of National Treasure.
Continue reading “National Treasure”Last Mile
If you want to read my review of Familia, read this post. In ラストマイル, Erena works for a distribution site. In the night before Black Friday, a bomb explodes in a delivered package and news of other packaged devices spreads terror across Japan.
Continue reading “Last Mile”Familia
If you want to read my review of Familia, read this post. In ファミリア, Seiji is a lonely Japanese ceramicist who becomes fond of Marcos, a young Brazilian man trying to escape a local gang led by Kaito.
Continue reading “Familia”Rental Family
If you want to read my review of Rental Family, read this post. In レンタル・ファミリー, Phillip is an American actor who lives in Tokyo and receives a job offer. He just didn’t know it would involve acting in people’s real lives and the impact those relationships would have on his own.
Continue reading “Rental Family”Eternal 831
If you want to read my review of Eternal 831, read this post. In 永遠の831, the housing bubble was the worst event to occur in Japan since WWII, and during those decades, Suzushiro discovers that Nazuna has the same power to stop time, but she is working for terrorists.
Continue reading “Eternal 831”White Lily
If you want to read my review of White Lily, read this post. In ホワイトリリー, Tokiko at her husband’s request, took Haruka into her studio. After her husband’s death, the teacher-student relationship blossomed into something more, which was shaken by the emergence of Satoru.
Continue reading “White Lily”The Water Flows to the Sea
If you want to read my review of The Water Flows to the Sea, read this post. In 水は海に向かって流れる, Chisa Sakaki had been abandoned by her mother after she betrayed her father and swore never to fall in love, but when she met Naotatsu, things began to change.
Continue reading “The Water Flows to the Sea”Desert of Namibia
If you want to read my review of Desert of Namibia, read this post. In ナミビアの砂漠, Kana Miyama lives without great aspirations for the future, but is very well treated by her boyfriend. Even so, she falls in love and leaves everything behind.
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