愛着 (2025)

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Aichaku is a 2025 Japanese film directed by Raito Nishizaka and Michael Williams that premiered on Amazon Prime Video in April 2025. The film stars Christopher McCombs and Christopher Nishizawa as two men living in a remote area of Chiba, Japan who fall in love over the course of the three-day story.

Production

Production company Tokyo Cowboys was heading into its tenth year and wanted to make something special to commemorate the anniversary. After making several streaming shows, the production company decided to return to the movie format that they had begun with.

Raito Nishizaka and Michael Williams had previously worked together on several of production company Tokyo Cowboy's projects including comedy series The Benza, Benza English, and the travel documentary show Getting Dirty in Japan. It was decided with Lucas being a foreigner and Ken being Japanese that it was important for Aichaku to have two directors with each director aligning with one of the character's perspectives.

Screenplay writer Christopher McCombs partially based the story of Aichaku off of his personal experiences living in Japan for fifteen years and partially on a series of interviews held in Chiba, Japan in 2023. Though initially Aichaku began as a short film script, McCombs realized that they weren't going to be able to tell the kind of story that he wanted to in that format.

Casting began with video auditions followed by an in-person callback. Callbacks were held for Aichaku in 2023 with Emika Kamieda and Yayoi Fujiwara in attendance. Kamieda and Fujiwara were both cast partially because they had experienced what it was like living overseas and could relate to Lucas' character. Kaori Takeshita was also in attendance, and was cast in part for her resemblance to Fujiwara.

Several actors who had appeared in previous Tokyo Cowboys projects returned for Aichaku, including Haku Inko, Masahito Kawahata, and Kosuke Imai in smaller roles. Cynthia Cheston, who had previously portrayed McCombs's mother in earlier works, was directly offered the role of Lucas's mother, Cathy. She accepted the part without reading the script, citing her positive experiences working with McCombs.

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