The read
It runs a compact 1h 23m.
Synopsis
Director Iwauchi Katsuki adapted this melodrama from Sasazawa Saho's award winning novel about two young lovers from different sides of the tracks set against the backdrop of the Roppongi district in Tokyo. Masaaki (Minegishi Toru) is the son of a prominent judge and a Law student at university. Chikage (Nakagawa Yuki) is a teenager from an underprivileged home. Both are desperately looking for an escape from their lives when they meet in Roppongi one night and fall in love. But coming from such different backgrounds, their happiness isn't assured.
Ratings
TMDB7/10
1 audience votes
Key crew
- Katsuki IwauchiDirector
- Yasuo TanamiScreenplay
- Ikuma DanOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Toru MinegishiEbina Masaaki
- Yuki NakagawaAkutagawa Chikage
- Kamatari FujiwaraDetective Uchiyama
- Masao ShimizuCast
- Keiko AwajiCast
- Tadao TakashimaCast
- Yoshio TsuchiyaCast
- Tatsuo MatsumuraCast
- Chōjirō TōginCast
- Naoya KusakawaCast
- Shinpei MitsuiCast
- Machiko NakaCast