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WASH AWAY

WASH

By Ikunosuke OKAZAKI

NIKKATSU CORPORATION - as SALES All rights

Comedy - Completed 2024

A Soap Girl Takes Care of Her Grandmother. She must juggle two jobs and live two lives wash her grandmother’s body as a caretaker by day, and wash her customers’ bodies as a soap girl by night. Grandmother could not even remember her name because of dementia. She is forgotten by everyone.

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Comedy, Social issues, Drama
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Duration
- 114 mn
- Director(s)
- Ikunosuke OKAZAKI
- Cast
- Yuuka NAKAO, Naoko KEN
- Producer(s)
- Kentaro KANBARA, Marie MURATA
- Synopsis
- Kana, who works as a “soap girl,” gets a call from her mother one day. Her mother must stay at a hospital for a week, so she asks Kana to take care of her grandmother while she is away.
  Unable to turn her mother down, Kana, who is hiding the fact that she is a sex worker, agrees to this. So now, she must juggle two jobs and live two lives: wash her grandmother’s body as a caretaker by day, and wash her customers’ bodies as a soap girl by night.
  Kana had not seen her grandmother, Kie, in several years. Kie could not even remember Kana’s name because of her dementia. Kana struggles to care for her grandmother when they can barely make conversation. Every time Kana turns up at her grandmother’s house, they “meet for the first time.” Knowing that Kie will forget everything that happens, Kana starts telling Kie about her job as a sex worker and slowly finds joy in home care.
  As the week goes by, the two grow closer, and Kana gets a glimpse into Kie’s life she never knew existed: a life as a passionate musician. Kana starts looking deep within herself and...