Toru Kojima and his friend Koji are young student boys with one thing in common - they both love to date older women. Koji is a playboy with several women, young and older, whereas Toru is a romantic with his heart set on on certain lady.
Acting
Hitomi Kuroki's layered performance as the object of impossible love
Cinematography
Tokyo Tower as melancholic symbol, not just backdrop
Director
Takashi Minamoto
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tokyo Tower looms as Japan's Eiffel Tower equivalent—a symbol of postwar aspiration that here becomes a monument to romantic failure.
Jun Matsumoto was already an Arashi idol when cast; his Koji is deliberately shallow to contrast with Okada's soulful Toru.
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