


Kafuku the plays the role of Vanya in the play and is greeted by a standing ovation at the end. We must keep on living,” Kafuku says while hugging Misaki, both getting closure from their past. “Those who survive keep thinking about the dead in one way or another that will continue. During this long journey, she tells the story of how she escaped from a landslide and kept looking at the house when another landslide happened and killed her mother. She also tells Kafuku that she takes the blame for killing his mother in the same way Kafuku takes the blame for Oto’s death. She takes him to her house which had been destroyed by a landslide. Kafuku forms a strong bond with MisakiĪfter hearing news about Takatsuki’s arrest, Kafuku asks Misaki to take him anywhere that’s peaceful. Takatsuki is later arrested for beating and killing a man who took pictures of him without his consent. Kafuku is visibly shaken by this unheard ending and realises that Oto is the girl in the play whereas Kafuku becomes the unknown person who cleaned up the dead body. She then screams to the camera saying, “I killed him,” ending the story. The girl runs to the house only to see the key missing from the hiding place with a camera mounted at the door. However, Yamaga appears to be completely normal the next day at school, meaning someone had cleared the body before he found out. The girl kills the burglar and runs away from the house making up her mind to tell Yamaga about this incident and beg for his forgiveness. The burglar seen her half-naked and had attempted to rape her. The footsteps the girl heard was from a burglar. The producers also appoint Misaki as the personal chauffeur to Kafuku.Īfter a day of rehearsals, Takatsuki reveals that Oto had completed the ending to the story she had relayed to Kafuku: Kafuku is hired as the director, and he recruits Takatsuki to play the role of Vanya. A distressed Kafuku joins a theatre company, unravelling past traumaĪfter the passing of Oto, Kafuku joins a theatre company in a production of the play ‘Uncle Vanya’, by Anton Chekov. When he came back, he saw Oto lying dead. After some weeks passed, Oto says that she needs to speak with Kafuku, but he left the house for a long drive. However, Kafuku keeps quiet and doesn’t confront Oto. The next day, Kafuku sees Oto cheating with Takatsuki, another actor that works with Oto. She doesn’t reveal the rest of the story to Kafuku. One day she leaves her underwear deep inside a drawer and on another day, she tries to masturbate on the boy’s bed when she hears footsteps approaching the door. She does this for quite some time and she takes small tokens from the boy’s room to herself. Without expressing these feelings out loud or telling Yamaga about it, she sneaks into his house and spends time inside his room. A high school girl develops feelings for a boy named Yamaga.
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The movie starts with Kafuku’s wife, Oto (Reika Kirishima), relating a story that she has made up. Kafuku sees his wife cheating with another actor after telling a bizarre story

The plays represent encouragement to accept the hard truths.The relationship between Kafuku and Misaki helps them both to let their feelings out.
