Official website: http://pc.video.dmkt-sp.jp/ft/s0004387
Cast: Komatsu Nana, Mamiya Shotaro, Saito Takumi, and more.
Synopsis: This is the story of how Koudai Shigemasa, Jr. and his wife met. The story is set on 30 years before the film timeline.
Fukamaru Yuuko (Komatsu Nana) is a fourth year student in the prestigious private university. She meets Koudai Shigemasa/Masao (Mamiya Shotaro) who transferred from Oxford. One day, Nao–Yuuko’s best friend, and Masao are dating. However, Masao has affair and Yuuko helps her best friend to reunite them. One week later, the two break up and Masao decides to confess his feelings to Yuuko.
- Movie: The Kodai Family (English title) / Kodai Family’s People (literal title)
- Romaji: Kodaike no Hitobito
- Japanese: 高台家の人々
- Director: Masato Hijikata
- Writer: Kozueko Morimoto (manga), Arisa Kaneko
- Producer: Megumi Nishihara, Hirose Kohmi, Junko Yamazaki
- Cinematographer: Hironobu Ooishi
- World Premiere: April, 2016 (Udine Far East Film Festival)
- Release Date: June 4, 2016
- Runtime: 116 min.
- Genre: Romantic-Comedy
- Distributor: Toho
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Kie Hirano (Haruka Ayase) is an ordinary OL who often daydreams. Mitsumasa Kodai (Takumi Saito) at the same company as Kie Hirano, but he is an elite salaryman. He is the eldest son in the Kodai family and he is also telepathic. Mitsumasa Kodai got his special ability to read other people’s mind from his British grandmother.
Mitsumasa becomes attracted to Kie’s warm heart and her dreamy temperament. They begin to date and enjoy their days together, but Mitsumasa Kodai’s mother calls.
Notes
- Based on the manga series “Kodaike no Hitobito” by Kozueko Morimoto (first published December, 2012 in Japanese josei manga magazine You).
Cast
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Haruka Ayase | Takumi Saito | Kiko Mizuhara | Shotaro Mamiya | Mao Daichi |
Kie Hirano | Mitsumasa Kodai | Shigeko Kodai | Kazumasa Kodai | Yuko Kodai |
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Masachika Ichimura | Yoshimasa | Kentaro Sakaguchi | Takuro Ohno | Muga Tsukaji |
Shigemasa Kodai Jr | Suekko | Kohei Kishimoto | Shigemasa Kodai | Minoru Wakita |
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Keiko Horiuchi | Kaho | Charlotte Kate Fox |
Yumiko Abe | Jun Saito | Anne Kodai |
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