Like Someone In Love named after Ella Fitzgerald's jazz standard is a droll elegant and playful film preoccupied with identities mistaken and assumed laced with references to the films of Yasujiro Ozu. Akiko a pretty and slightly distant sociology student works nights as a high- class escort. Instead of studying for her exams and meeting her grandmother she reluctantly goes to the house of her latest client retired sociology professor Takashi. The next morning she allows him to give her a ride to university crossing paths with her volatile boyfriend Noriaki... (Ryo Kase). The latter assume that the kind old man is Akiko's grandfather thus allowing an odd role-playing routine to begin until perhaps the hoax is discovered. After Certified Copy and Ten Like Someone In Love offers with pristine images and long takes off the streets of Tokyo at night a new facet of Kiarostami's study of human relations and unforeseeable encounters. Special Features: Trailer [show more]
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Japanese drama. Akiko (Rin Takanashi) is a young woman living and studying in Tokyo who is also moonlighting as a prostitute to make ends meet. When she meets her latest client, the shy and timid old man Takashi (Tadashi Okuno), she is surprised to find out he is merely lonely and has no interest in having sex. The two share a meal and the next morning Takashi takes Akiko to school. When an unexpected run-in with Akiko's boyfriend Noriaki (Ryo Kase) causes Takashi to lie and say he is her grandfather, it begins a relationship between the three which is based on lies but holds something much more meaningful.
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