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JUNPEI, THINK TWICE (TENTATIVE)

By Toshiyuki MORIOKA

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Drama - Post-Production 2018

A nouvelle, small-time yakuza, coming-of-age-story, based on the novel of the Naoki Award winning novelist, Hideo Okuda.

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Director(s)
- Toshiyuki MORIOKA
- Cast
- Shuhei NOMURA, Yurina YANAGI
- Synopsis
- Junpei Sakamoto, 21, is a good-natured, bottom-rung foot soldier in a yakuza syndicate that claims the Kabukicho entertainment district near Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station as its territory. He can be quick to pick a fight, but he’s good-looking, has a soft spot for women, and enjoys a good following around the neighborhood. When the boss orders him to be a hitman to kill one of the top brass of a rival group, Junpei takes it as chance to prove himself. The boss hands him JPY300,000- (about $3,000) and has given him three full days of free time before the mission. Junpei go out to enjoy himself and meets a variety of different characters in Kabukicho. Junpei boasts about his mission to a girl he spend a night together.
  The three days fly by as Jumpei lives it up in a hotel suite, drinking with his yakuza buddies; is befriended by a former college professor who got caught trying to walkout on his bill; sees his mother for the first time in two years; and finally talks to the dancer he’s had a crush on for a long time…What path does he choose to follow after these many meetings and partings???