On The Road To Love

Jun 28, 2019

1h 26m

★ 0.0

Overview

Tatsuya Ishii won the JFF Special Award at the Pia Film Festival Award 2018 for Subarashiki Sekai. Here, he chases the concept of true love through the self-documentary format as he revisits time spent with an old lover. They had been dating for two years and she was in a mental ward of a hospital after the breakdown of the relationship. Ishii recorded their relationship while together until it got too bad. Then, one day, after a call from her, he visited her house with a camera in hand and talked to her to find out she had lost two years of her memory.

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Cast

Mei Fukuda

Tatsuya Ishii

Hiroto Oshita

Ryoka Neya

Keitoku Itou

Shota Ozeki

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6.2

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4.1

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8.0

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0.0

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5.5

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7.5

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6.1

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6.8

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On The Road To Love

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