Like Someone in Love

Brief Encounter without the chaste repression. A student moonlighting as an escort develops an odd connection with a lonely professor in Tokyo. The nature of their relationship becomes increasingly ambiguous over the course of a single day. A quiet film of subtle gestures.

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Abbas Kiarostami directed Like Someone in Love in 2012. See Abbas Kiarostami's full filmography, where to start with Abbas Kiarostami, or where to go after you've seen everything by Abbas Kiarostami.

Like Someone in Love was released in 2012 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 109 minutes.