Strange Tales of Love and Strangers (2017)

恋愛奇譚集

Meeting people of Fukushima countryside makes the foreign girl different

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.

Date of release

2017-08-11

TMDB

4.4 / 10 (9)

Runtime

2h 0m

Genres

Drama, Romance

Director

Raita Kuramoto

Casting

• Yao Ai-ning — Yuwen
• Soko Wada
• Chika Uchida
• Mayuko Fukuda
• Shuntaro Yanagi
• Nina Endo
• Tomoya Maeno
• Mika Ushio
• Ruka Wakabayashi
• Ayumu Nakajima
• Hiroshi Yamamoto
• Kenji Mizuhashi

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