My Hawaiian Discovery

Jun 14, 2014

1h 59m

★ 3.5

Overview

Minori Oyamada, a put-upon editor at a travel-guide publishing company, is asked by an old friend to plan her forthcoming wedding party in Hawaii. After persuading her boss that it will be a work trip, Minori departs for Hawaii with the intention to find and marry a rich man. But when Minori arrives, she encounters three different men who complicate her original goal...

Genres

Comedy

Romance

Adventure

Production Companies

Kinoshita Komuten

Shirogumi

Toei Company

Pony Canyon

Toei Video Company

ADK

RKB Mainichi Broadcasting Corporation

Hikari TV

Matchpoint

My Hawaiian Discovery Trailers

Cast

Minori Oyamada

Nana Eikura

Akane Yoshimura

Rin Takanashi

Tomoya Abe

Ryo Kase

Tsutomu Kamada

Koji Seto

Aiko Hayakawa

Yuri Nakamura

Yuichi Tajima

Sosuke Ikematsu

Emi

Misa Uehara

Junko Abe

Sairi Ito

Shingo Tsurumi

Shohei Uno

Ken Yasuda

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