Like Someone in Love
2012 · Movie · NR · 109 min · ★ 6.9 · 80% critics
Over the course of a day in Tokyo, a young student doing escort work is sent to an elderly man who seems to want companionship more than anything else. As misunderstandings and shifting roles build, their quiet time together becomes tangled with outside pressures, leaving everyone unsure what’s real, what’s assumed, and what’s being hidden.
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Details
- Years
- 2012
- Release date
- 2012-09-15
- Language
- Japanese
- Rated
- NR
- Runtime
- 109 min
- Critic score
- 80/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.9/10 (272 votes)
- Box office
- $562,878
- Budget
- $4,800,000
About
You may enjoy this if you like patient, conversation-driven dramas with ambiguity and simmering tension, similar to Lost in Translation; Not for you if you need fast pacing, clear answers, or a traditional, neatly wrapped story.
Pros: natural, lifelike conversations; tense quiet moments; immersive Tokyo atmosphere | Cons: very slow pace; minimal plot movement; abrupt, unresolved ending
Themes
- prostitute
- prostitution
- widower
Awards & recognition
- Asian Film Award — Best Supporting Actor · 2012 · nominated
- Asian Film Award — Best Director · 2012 · nominated
Cast & crew
Rin Takanashi
as Akiko
Tadashi Okuno
as Takashi
Ryo Kase
as Noriaki
Denden
as Hiroshi
Ryota Nakanishi
- RM
Reiko Mori
as Nagisa
- KK
Kaneko Kubota
as Akiko's Grandmother
- MS
Mihoko Suzuki
as The Neighbor
Hiroyuki Kishi
Koichi Ohori
as The Taxi Driver
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami