After a floundering toy salesman rescues a beguiling woman whose car was stuck on the train tracks, she inadvertently whisks him into an epic series of misadventures that turn his life upside down. While his once humdrum routine was already complicated by two female co-workers, he soon finds himself entrenched with gangsters, strange interlopers, kidnapping, and other sundry crimes. Singular auteur Koji Fukada (A Girl Missing) marks his first time adapting someone else’s work to the screen by bringing Mochiru Hoshisato’s  popular manga to life replete with his patently idiosyncratic and lively take on human nature, fatalism, and true love.

THE REAL THING was an Official Selection at Cannes in 2020, and featured as part of a spotlight on Fukada’s career during last year’s Tokyo International Film Festival.

Written and Directed by: Koji Fukada

Cast: Win Morisaki, Kaho Tsuchimura, Kei Ishibashi, Shugo Oshinari,

Akari Fukunaga, Shohei Uno

Producers: Takaya Kano, Shinsehi Tago, Tatsuya Matsuoka, Yu Katoh, Yoko Abe

Director of Photography: Kosuke Haruki

Genre: Drama/Thriller

RT: 232 minutes

Aspect Ratio: 1.85: 1

Sound: Stereo 2.0

Language: Japanese with English Subtitles