Asako, an Osaka student, meets the adventurous and charming Baku in a photo exhibition. The romance between them will immediately emerge, but it will be brief, because soon after he disappears. Years later, an introverted and sad Asako, now an employee in a cafeteria in Tokyo, meets Ryohei, a boy identical to Baku, but his complete opposite. Based in a novel by the author of fiction and romance Tomoka Shibasaki, the most recent film by the Japanese Ryusuke Hamaguchi, selected to participate for the Palm d’Or in last Cannes Film Festival, plays with the figure of the doppelganger with a story that explores the complexity of interpersonal relationships.

AUTHOR:

Sachiko Tanaka y Ryusuke Hamaguchi, basados en una novela de Tomoka Shibasaki

DIRECTOR:

Ryusuke Hamaguchi

CAST:

Masahiro Higashide (Baku/Ryohei), Erika Karata (Asako), Rio Yamashita (Maya), Koji Seto (Kushikashi), Sairi Ito (Haruyo), Daichi Watanabe (Okazaki)