An ex-idol collapses on the street and moves in with a random 56-year-old man. Chaos? Healing? Both.
Akiko (Mai Fukagawa) is a former idol, but now lives an ordinary life. She works at a company and keeps reminding herself that she is happy and to have a fulfilling day. One day, she walks to work and falls down. She becomes stuck and unable to move. Akiko breaks down mentally and decides to quit her job. Now, Akiko doesn't have a job, a boyfriend, and only 100,000 yen (~$700 USD) in her bank account. Her friend then tells her that she should move in with 56 year old salaryman Sasapon (Arata Iura), who lives alone in his house in Tokyo. When she visits Sasapon, he invites her to stay at his house on the condition that she can live there until his retirement. Their strange living arrangement begins.
Acting
Fukagawa's frozen collapse on the street—career-defining stillness
Writing
The unspoken contract between two people who've given up differently
Direction
Akiyama lets awkward silences breathe like characters
Director
Mayu Akiyama
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on a novel by Rin Takano, the film captures Japan's 'hikikomori' and 'retirement loneliness' epidemics through an oddly hopeful lens.
Mai Fukagawa was an actual Nogizaka46 idol; her casting adds meta-layers to Akiko's struggle with post-fame obscurity.
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