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THE LONGING

MIKUSU MODAN

By Toshizo FUJIWARA

AXXON MEDIA - as SALES World

Children's - Completed 2025

Hiro (53) and his wife Sono (42) run an okonomiyaki restaurant which employs ex-youth offenders to help support their rehabilitation. Since an incident with a former employee a year ago, Hiro has been hounded by hate speech online. Nevertheless, he sticks to his principles at the restaurant.

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Berlinale 2025
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    • Year of production
    • 2025
    • Genres
    • Children's, Drama, Social issues
    • Countries
    • JAPAN
    • Languages
    • JAPANESE
    • Budget
    • 1 - 3 M$
    • Duration
    • 104 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Toshizo FUJIWARA
    • Synopsis
    • Hiro (53) and his wife Sono (42) run an okonomiyaki restaurant which employs ex-youth offenders to help support their rehabilitation. Since an incident with a former employee a year ago, Hiro has been hounded by hate speech online. Nevertheless, he sticks to his principles at the restaurant. When he interviews the 18-year-old Yuto in the detention centre, the young man tells him: “I want the chance to start over!”, and Hiro hires him. After receiving his first pay packet, Yuto returns to his hometown to buy his father a gift but discovers that he has left town. Yuto’s mother already abandoned him when he was a child and now his father is gone, too. Yuto reconnects with an old friend and they go to a club together. There, Yuto becomes fascinated with Yukiha, a 17-year-old dancer at the club who was also recently released from juvenile detention. As Yuto becomes increasingly infatuated with Yukiha, he gradually loses himself and grows isolated at Hiro’s restaurant.
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