Main trailer and poster added for movie “As for Me” starring Ai Hashimoto and Taishi Nakagawa. Movie is based on 2012 novel “Wasejo, Onna, Otoko” by Asako Yuzuki (“The Many Faces of Ito“) and directed by Hitoshi Yazaki (“Strawberry Shortcakes“). Meanwhile, the movie’s theme song has been announced as “Our Last Step” by Ikkyu Nakajima from rock band “tricot.” The theme song is also featured in the main trailer. Caption on the main poster states “This man is a fool, but I am even more of a fool who has loved him all the way.”
“As for Me” will be released March 14, 2025 in Japan.
Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki: Kanako Saotome (Ai Hashimoto) enters a university and begins to live with her two friends. During the university entrance ceremony, she meets Keishi Nagatsuta (Taishi Nakagawa), whose dream is to become a screenwriter for the theater club. Their relationship develops into a romantic relationship. After Kanako Saotome graduates from the university, she gets a job at a big publishing company and pursues her dream of working as an editor, but Keishi Nagatsuta is different. He is all talk and he has never finished his screenplay. He doesn’t appear to be graduating from the university any time soon either. There’s suspicion that Keishi Nagatsuta is cheating on her with a first year student who joined the theater club. At that time, Kanako Saotome receives a confession from her co-worker Yoshizawa. Kanako Saotome and Keishi Nagatsuta gradually begin to drift apart. It has been 10 years since they first met … and is their love between them?
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