VIRTUAL J-FILM
7/18-21
SENSEI, WOULD YOU SIT BESIDE ME? | 「先生、私の隣に座っていただけませんか？」
September 2021
119min
Drama, Comedy, Mystery
In Japanese with English Subtitles
Not Rated
Directed by HORIE Takahiro
Our next J-Film screening is Sensei, Would You Sit Beside Me?, a fresh, genre-blending story about infidelity.
Manga artist Sawako (HARU Kuroki) suspects her husband of having an affair—but instead of confronting him, she beings drawing a new manga. Her new project mirrors her own life, following a manga artist whose husband is cheating. As her real-life husband anxiously reads each chapter, he starts to question his wife, himself, and the very line between fiction and reality.
Join us for this cleverly constructed film that takes on this story of adultery with humor and inventiveness.
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