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Audio Sound: Japanese
Movie: Like Someone in Love
Romaji: Raiku Samuwan In Rabu
Japanese: ライク・サムワン・イン・ラブ
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Writer: Abbas Kiarostami
Producer: Charles Gilibert, Nathanael Karmitz, Abbas Kiarostami
Cinematographer: Katsumi Yanagijima
Release Date: September 15, 2012 (Japan)
Genre: Drama / Arthouse
Distributor: Eurospace
Runtime: 109 min.
Language: Japanese
Country: France, Japan
To pay for her tuition fees, Akiko works as an escort. One evening, Akiko is sent to the home of an elderly professor named Takashi. They spend their time making conversation. The next day, Takashi takes Akiko to school and, while there, meets her boyfriend Noriaki. Noriaki is hot tempered and jealous, but mistakes Takashi as her grandfather. When Takashi sees Akiko his heart beats. Is he really in love?
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| Dispatched to an elderly professor, a sociology student who moonlights as a high-end escort finds her latest client less interested in sex than in cooking her soup, talking, and playing old Ella Fitzgerald records. Eventually, night gives way to day and a tense standoff with the student’s insanely jealous boyfriend; but nothing is quite as it appears on the surface. Are these characters – who conjure in one another the spectres of regret and roads not taken – meeting by chance, or is it fate? Is this love, or merely something like it?
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