LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE (2012)

Cast

Plot

Akiko, a pretty and slightly distant sociology student works nights as a high class escort. Instead of studying for her exams and meeting her grandmother, she reluctantly goes to the house of her latest client, retired sociology professor Takashi. The next morning, she allows him to give her a ride to university, crossing paths with her volatile boyfriend, Noriaki who assumes that the kind old man is Akiko's grandfather, thus allowing an odd role-playing routine to begin, until, perhaps, the hoax is discovered. Named after Ella Fitzgerald's jazz standard, this is a droll, elegant and playful tale, laced with references to the films of Yasujiro Ozu.