Rising pop idol Mai makes the unthinkable mistake: falling in love despite her contract. Dragged before the courts by her own agency, Mai and her companion choose to fight – not just for their future, but to defend the most basic and universal right: the right to love.
Koji Fukada’s new film portrays a young woman determined to risk everything to challenge the rules of Japanese society.
Crédits
Interprètes
Yuki Kura, Karata Erika, Jenjiro Tsuda, Kyoko Saito
Screenplay
Kōji Fukada, Shintaro MitaniImage
Hidetoshi ShinomiyaEditing
Sylvie LagerSound
Takaaki YamamotoMusic
AgehaspringsProduction
Toho Co, Knockonwood IncSéances
Le Théâtre de la Gare du Midi VOSTF+STA
Followed by a Q&A with the director
Cinéma Le Royal VOSTF+STA - Salle 1
Cannes Premiere 2025
Kōji Fukada
Born in 1980
Kōji Fukada is a Japanese director, screenwriter, editor, and producer. He won the Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes in 2016 for Harmonium. He is also known for Au revoir l’été (2013 – Golden Balloon at the Nantes Three Continents Festival) and The Nurse (2019 - Official Competition in Locarno).
Filmographie
Love on Trial (2025) : Cannes Première
Love Life (2022)
The Real Thing (2020) : Competition Cannes film festival 2020
A Girl Missing (2019) : Competition Locarno international Film Festival
The Man from the Sea (2018)
Harmonium (2016) : Jury’s Prize Un Certain Regard
Sayonara (2015) : Tokyo international Film Festival
Au revoir l'été (2013) : Tokyo international Film Festival
The Chair (2002)
Contact
Distribution : Art House Films