Because of her past, 17-year-old Rio lives her days filling the emptiness in her heart with money—until one day, she meets a university professor named Kouki and falls in love.
Acting
Nozomi Sasaki's vacant-to-alive transformation
Direction
Yuri Kanchiku navigates problematic premise with surprising tenderness
Director
Yuri Kanchiku
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Adapted from a keitai shōsetsu (cell phone novel), a uniquely Japanese 2000s phenomenon where serialized stories written on phones dominated youth culture and frequently became blockbuster films.
Director Yuri Kanchiku was only 28 when she made this—one of few women directing mainstream Japanese romance at the time, bringing a female gaze that complicates the potentially exploitative source material.
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