Criterion Collection (2012)
drama
France | Japanese | Color | 01:49
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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Tadashi Okuno | Takashi Watanabe |
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Rin Takanashi | Akiko |
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Ryo Kase | Noriaki |
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Denden | Hiroshi |
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Mihoko Suzuki | The neighbor |
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Kaneko Kubota | Akiko's grandmother |
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Hiroyuki Kishi | The former student |
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Reiko Mori | Nagisa |
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Kôichi Ôhori | Taxi Driver |
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Tomoaki Tatsumi | The mechanic |
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Seina Kasugai | Nagisa's friend |
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Alexandre Réis | Alexandre Réis |
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Ryota Nakanishi | Student |
| Director | Abbas Kiarostami |
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| Writer | Abbas Kiarostami, Mohammad Rahmani | |
| Producer | Charles Gillibert, Kenzo Horikoshi, Marin Karmitz, Nathanaël Karmitz, Abbas Kiarostami, Mai Ushikubo | |
| Photography | Katsumi YANAGIJIMA | |
| Edition | Criterion Dual Format Edition |
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| Nr Discs | 1 |
| Screen Ratios | Widescreen (1.66:1) |
| Audio Tracks | SUB [English] DTS-HD Master Audio Stereo [Japanese] |
| Subtitles | English |
| Regions | Region A |