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HAZAMA NI IKIRU HARU

By Rika KATSU

COLORBIRD INC. - as SALES All rights, World

Romance - Completed 2022

A magazine editor falls in love with a genius painter who has a developmental disability.
She wavers in between her emotions and her inability to relate them.

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Romance, Drama, Female director
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 103 mn
- Director(s)
- Rika KATSU
- Writer(s)
- Rika KATSU
- Cast
- Hio MIYAZAWA
- Producer(s)
- Takahiro YOSHIZAWA, Yasuyuki NIINO, Kana MATSUDA
- Synopsis
- Haru is a magazine editor in her third year at a publishing company. She is constantly scolded by her boss and finds it difficult to communicate with her live-in boyfriend. One day, she encounters the painter Tohru Okunai, who only uses blue in his paintings. In spite of being hailed as a genius, Okunai suffers from a developmental disability. He says what he thinks without a filter, is open about his feelings and is unable to lie. Haru, finds herself more and more drawn to him as his honesty wins our self-conscious heroine over. Although Haru attempts to close the physical distance between them, she is hurt when Okunai cannot understand her intentions. On the other hand, a female photographer who works on a shoot with Haru and Okunai, appears to strike up a more solid bond with the painter. Haru is tossed and torn between many elements in her life in this touching love story.