A broken washing machine, a broken heart, and the weirdest meet-cute in Tokyo.
Kizaki, who moved to Tokyo from the Kansai region to become a manga artist, is assigned to work at a used electrical appliance store where he works part-time as a store keeper and repairman. One day, a woman comes to the store drenched from the rain. She is Setsuko, the only daughter of the store's president and a returnee. Since then, Setsuko often comes to the store. Kizaki becomes concerned about Setsuko, but Setsuko has something to do with Oshi, a senior who used to work at the store...
Acting
Tsutsui's deadpan longing is *chef's kiss*.
Production
The store feels lived-in, cluttered, real Tokyo.
Writing
Dialogue that says everything by saying nothing.
Director
Tetsuo Shinohara
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on a novel by Sueyoshi Shōji, who specialized in ordinary people in extraordinary emotional situations.
The Kansai-Tokyo dynamic isn't just regional—Kizaki's accent marks him as outsider, dreamer, slightly lost.
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