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Title: Like Someone in Love (2012)
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| Tadashi Okuno | ... | Takashi Watanabe | |
| Rin Takanashi | ... | Akiko | |
| Ryô Kase | ... | Noriaki | |
| Denden | ... | Hiroshi | |
| Mihoko Suzuki | ... | The neighbor | |
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Kaneko Kubota | ... | Akiko's grandmother |
| Hiroyuki Kishi | ... | The former student | |
| Reiko Mori | ... | Nagisa | |
| Kôichi Ohori | ... | Taxi Driver (as Kouichi Ohori) | |
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Tomoaki Tatsumi | ... | The mechanic |
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Seina Kasugai | ... | Nagisa's friend |
Like Someone in Love I is a Japanese-language film directed by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. It has been selected to be screened in the main competition section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Written by Abbas Kiarostami. Written by Ugetsu
I watched this movie on silver screen twice up to now and I'm sure I can check it out ten more times and still enjoy it. It's definitely a minimal piece of art but it's as deep as life. It looks simple but it doesn't mean you can't elaborate. Kiarostami highlights lifelike stories. Stories which belong to us, ordinary people! Aren't they important? And Kiarostami doesn't conceal this fact that he likes Haiku and Japanese culture but he doesn't have any idea how this feelings came up to him. He started writing poems that resembled Haiku when he was just 20! The serene, nonchalant, and often profoundly philosophical language of haiku allows the poet to swiftly touch on the core of the universal human condition: love, despair, humor, death; as his movies do and now Kiarostami made his last movie (and one of the best ones) where Haiku was blossomed: Japan. All these said, I can't ignore the innovative cinematographic techniques he used in "Like Someone in Love" that adds to the beauty of this movie. Remember the first scene in the bar with Camera fixed on a table, the girl is talking in behind while we see other people activities. We don't know what we should track. The other scenes in the car which camera plays with lights and shadows are just magnificent. I'm really amazed how delicately he sets up these all. Every detail is deliberated. Briefly, if you are bored of the stupid stories we see in the movies nowadays and instead want to know what's behind go and check this out.