Strange Tales of Love and Strangers (2017)
A Taiwanese girl Yuwen comes to a village of Fukushima to study abroad. She thinks falling-in-love is a stupid thing and the land is unusually dry as Yuwen’s heart because of no rains. Yuwen struggles to speak Japanese but learns Japan culture and relationships from her host family and neighbors. As she opens her heart little by little, rain falls on the small village after a long time.
Director: Raita Kuramoto
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Yao Ai-ning as Yuwen |
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Soko Wada as |
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Chika Uchida as |
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Mayuko Fukuda as |
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Shuntaro Yanagi as |
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Nina Endo as |
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Tomoya Maeno as |
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Mika Ushio as |
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Ruka Wakabayashi as |
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Ayumu Nakajima as |
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Hiroshi Yamamoto as |
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Kenji Mizuhashi as |
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Suon Kan as |
| Editing | Takuya Ito | Editor |
| Writing | Kyoko Inukai | Writer |
| Crew | Yasushi Ouchi | Cinematography |
| Sound | Shuta Hasunuma | Music |
| Directing | Raita Kuramoto | Director |
| Production | Misato Kono | Executive Producer |
| Production | Kiyotaka Tanaka | Producer |