My Sassy Girl in Tokyo (film 2024
| My Sassy Girl 東京の生意気な彼女 | |
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| Directed by | Fumimori Kaneko |
| Written by | Shuichi Kanzaki |
| Produced by | Lee Tae-Hyun Takumi Oishi Shotaro Akiya |
| Starring | Riisa Naka Masayoshi Sato |
| Cinematography | Kyouhei Kitayama |
| Edited by | Keiko Fujiwara |
| Music by | Keisuke Noda |
| Production companies | CJ Entertainment Asmik Ace |
| Distributed by | Shochiku |
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| Running time | 92 minutes |
| Countries | Japan South Korea |
| Languages | Japanese Korean |
The film was released in Japan and direct-to-DVD in the United States on August 26, 2008, and on Region 2 DVD in the United Kingdom on August 25, 2008. It was distributed by Entertainment in Video.[2]
Plot
editTaro Takakura, a polite, kind-hearted young man, hopes he will one day secure a managerial position with the Fuji Tokyo agricultural company, where his father works as a maintenance mechanic. When he starts business school in Tokyo City, he hears news that his cousin has suddenly died. His friend suggests that they play a game in which they say whether they would sleep with any of the women they see while sitting in the park, which is where Taro sees Hikaru for the first time, but leaves to meet his grieving aunt who wants to set him up with someone. On the subway platform, Taro sees Hikaru drunkenly leaning over the guard rail and saves her from being hit by an oncoming train. Taking responsibility for the drunken, blacked-out girl, he sobers her up and begins a relationship with her over several weeks. While becoming fascinated with Hikaru, he soon comes face-to-face with her volatile personality and learns more about her past through wild, drunken dates. Among other things, Hikaru tells Taro that her fiancé recently left her, tells a Tiller King representative she is pregnant with Taro's child, sabotages Taro's job interview with another Fuji Tokyo representative, and gives a piano recital where she asks him to bring her a single red rose and pushes him into the sea – and then saves him. Despite this, Taro begins to fall in love with Hikaru but clashes with her father, who believes Taro is responsible for her erratic behavior. Because of this, Hikaru begins to drift away from Taro.
A few months later, Hikaru asks Taro to meet her in Tokyo Dome to exchange unopened love letters to bury in a time capsule, and to meet at the same place on the same day of the following year to read them. After parting ways at a train station, Taro spends the next year preparing for when they will meet again but when the day arrives, Hikaru does not meet him at the tree. Reading her letter, he learns that on the day they met, her fiancé suddenly committed suicide with little explanation and that he reminded Hikaru of him. The letter further explains that Taro and Hikaru's time together was a prolonged reenactment of her relationship with her fiancé. She writes that her absence at the tree means she has not yet healed from her loss, but it does not mean that she doesn't love him. Taro's letter in turn tells Hikaru she is the only woman he will ever love and says that he believes he is destined to be with her.
Some time later, Hikaru meets with her ex-fiancé's mother at a restaurant, who she remained close with after his death. The mother explains that she has been trying to set Hikaru up with another young man for quite some time, and she has arranged for the two to meet today. As she begins to describe him, Taro walks into the restaurant, revealing that Taro's cousin was Hikaru's fiancé. Taro and Hikaru share their first kiss, and he narrates that we all need to help destiny in shaping our lives.
Cast
edit- Riisa Naka as Hikaru Sanada, a wealthy, fun-loving girl who lives in Tokyo City
- Masayoshi Sato as Taro Takakura, a business-school student from Hokkaido
- Junya Ikeda as Satoshi, Taro's friend
- Lily Franky as Hotaru Sanada, Hikaru's father. Dr. Sanada disapproves of Hikaru's relationship with Taro.
- Takashi Ukaji as Takeshi Takakura
- Shido Nakamura as the old man in the park. He helps Hikaru sort out her feelings toward Taro.
- Hiroyuki Ikeuchi as Hikaru's doorman. He carries Hikaru into her apartment when Taro brings her home drunk.
- Koji Yamamoto as Mr. Kawanobu
- Masaya Kikawada as Soldier
- Miyako Tanaka as Kitty / Aunt Hanako
- Noritaka Hamao as Tokyo Citizen
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