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100 Yen Love

Directed by Masaharu Take

Japan • 2014 • 113 mins.

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“Play video games with your nephew, pick up junk food, and pass out reading manga. Such is the life of Ichiko Saito, a 32-year-old living with her parents and recently divorced sister. When their working class home gets too small for both sisters, her mother pushes Ichiko into the world and she gets a job at the nearby konbini. She befriends a gruff amateur boxer but cruel reality soon pushes her to don the gloves herself. As Derek Elley of Film Business Asia writes, ‘Ando triumphs in [this] quirky tale of a social misfit’s transformation, exceeding all expectations in a physical performance of absurd comedy and deep pathos.”—Japan Cuts.

Sponsored by Consular Office of Japan in Portland.

Genres: Drama

Appears in: 39th Portland International Film Festival

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