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A DOUBLE LIFE
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Completed - JAPANESE - Drama - 126 minutes

Log Line

Our secrets are lukewarm and harsh.

Previous markets

  • Cannes 2016 (Premiere)
Full history

Year of production : 2016

Director(s) : Yoshiyuki KISHI
Writer(s) : Yoshiyuki KISHI
Cast : Mugi KADOWAKI, Hiroki HASEGAWA, Masaki SUDA, Lily FRANKY

Producer(s) : Hiromitsu SUGITA, Junko SATO, Tomoko TOMITA

Synopsis

Tama is an ordinary grad student who attends the Department of Philosophy and lives with her game designer boyfriend Takuya. She is getting ready to write her master’s thesis. Her professor, Shinohara suggests she tries “philosophical tailing” where she follows one stranger and makes a recording of his life and his every move. Tama feels hesitant about tailing, but one day when she goes to the bookstore to find reference, she spots Ishizaka, the man who lives in a house next to her apartment with a beautiful wife and daughter. When the editor Ishizaka leaves after his work, accompanying a writer’s to his book signing event Tama follows him out of the store. Tama starts tailing Ishizaka and soon he begins to show his various personalities, from a talented editor who is disciplined and sharp in his meeting with a novelist, and a father who communicates with his daughter in an innocent manner after his affair with his mistress Shinobu. Tama becomes obsessed with tailing her target…

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Country(ies) : JAPAN


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