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ROUND TRIP HEART

26-year-old Hachiko Hojo works as a train attendant on a Romance Car, but doesn’t have the self-confidence for a romance of her own. An encounter with a thief sends Hachiko on a journey to find her estranged mother and herself among the tourist attractions of Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture.

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26-year-old Hachiko Hojo (Yuko Oshima) works as a train attendant, selling items on a cart. She's good at her job, but she lacks self confidence. One day, she meets a movie producer (Koji Ookura). They decide to visit tourist attractions in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Hachiko Hojo looks back upon her life along the way.

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2015 ‘ロマンス’ Directed by Yuki Tanada

26-year-old Hachiko Hojo (Yuko Oshima) works as a train attendant, selling items on a cart. She's good at her job, but she lacks self confidence. One day, she meets a movie producer (Koji Ookura). They decide to visit tourist attractions in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Hachiko Hojo looks back upon her life along the way.

Oshima Yuko Koji Ohkura Yoshimi Nozaki Masataka Kubota Megumi Nishimuta

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Yuki Tanada

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Toramatsu Mamiya Gen Satô

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Tsuyoshi Sugino

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Ryuji Miyajima

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Ryô Ohtsuka

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Daika Matsukura

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Yoshikazu Suo Jirafa

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Toei Video Company TFC Tokyo Theatres Company

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Romansu, Romance, 트립 투 하코네, 浪漫號列車, 心路历程

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Review by Niels Matthijs (Onderhond) ★★★½

A cute little drama with minor comedy elements. Tanada isn't reinventing the wheel here, if you've seen a couple of Japanese dramas, this will definitely feel familiar. At the same time, there are some interesting details that do set it apart from its peers. And unless you want lots of narrative action, I'm going to guess this is also a very accessible film.

When a young woman working on a train apprehends a thief, the man pleads not guilty. After a little scuffle and some back and forth, the two end up together on a little trip in search of Hachiko's mother. She sent Hachiko a somewhat disconcerting letter, and the man fears she might be planning on killing herself.…

Review by MrJago 4

Watched without subtitles. Visually and acting wise it felt quite TV.

Review by Melissa McB ★★★

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

A story about two broken people both running from their current realities due to shitty dads. What's with dads just abandoning their kids when they get divorced? That's weird. Don't do that, dads.

Koji Ookura is a walking cartoon, and he basically makes the movie. There's a lot of tension throughout the movie of whether or not he's actually a creep or just misunderstood, so when he does actually end up attempting to rape the protagonist, it's kind of a bummer (I mean, not just because rape's a bummer) but because you want to like him in spite of his faults and he was acting as a stand in father figure for Hachiko. Turns out he's actually just terrible, no matter how sympathetic the film tries to paint him.

Review by Martin De Martin ★★★★½

Hachiko lavora come cameriera nei treni giapponesi ed è una dipendente modello. Una serie di eventi la porterà a fuggire dalla sua vita ordinaria assieme a una persona appena conosciuta sul treno. Il rocambolesco viaggio sarà l'occasione per fare i conti con il proprio passato. Tanada Yuki si riconferma autrice di grande spessore, capace di colpire dritto al cuore con un cinema che sa bene quali corde toccare, riuscendo ad emozionare con la più disarmante semplicità e toccando temi universali. Un cinema che riappacifica, commuove e fa stare bene.

Review by Pachinko Pop ★★★

Pretty cute, sort of serious movie about Hachiko (AKB48 graduate Yuzo Oshima) a buttoned up woman who sells refreshments on the train encountering the deadbeat film producer Sakuraba (Koji Okura, who I recognize as Akuma from PING PONG and Shigeru Mizuki’s brother in GEGEGE NO NYOBO). He strong arms her into revisiting a place she vacationed to as a child, in search of her mother. Oshima didn’t have as much to do, mainly having to act cold and reserved, but has a few emotionally effective scenes at the end. I thought Okura was much more of the standout. He effortlessly shifts from slimy to charming to pathetic and back. I got quite a few laughs and enjoyed the scenery, another one of these secret travel movies disguised as a dramatic comedy.

Review by Winthropsoctt ★★★★

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Review by Gregg Humphrey ★★★½

mostly light and quirky, but nevertheless delightful, with a few surprising moments of serious emotional insight

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Hachiko is a 26-year old train attendant. She’s good at her job, but lacks self-confidence. She works on the Romance Car travelling from Tokyo to the mountain resort of Hakone, selling food and drinks. One day she meets a movie producer on board when he tries to steal a box of cookies from her cart. They end up spending the day together, visiting several tourist destinations inKanagawa Prefecture. He makes her laugh and she makes him realize what he misses most in life. They both daydream about their troubled past, whilst a platonic relationship arises. A touching and nostalgic road trip, showing a variety of breathtaking places. (Synopsis from Camera Japan Festival) 『ロマンス』 Film Festivals (selected): Japan Cuts, Udine Far East Film Festival, Camera Japan Festival Available to stream on (subject to change): n/a [This film is NOT available to stream on SAKKA. We do not own the copyright, and this page is for informative purposes only.]

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26-year-old Hachiko Hojo works as a train attendant on a Romance Car, but doesn't have the self-confidence for a romance of her own. An encounter with a thief sends Hachiko on a journey to find her estranged mother and herself among the tourist attractions of Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture.

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26-year-old Hachiko Hojo (Yuko Oshima) works as a train attendant, selling items on a cart. She's good at her job, but she lacks self confidence. One day, she meets a movie producer (Koji Ookura). They decide to visit tourist attractions in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Hachiko Hojo looks back upon her life along the way.

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26-year-old Hachiko Hojo (Yuko Oshima) works as a train attendant, selling items on a cart. She's good at her job, but she lacks self confidence. One day, she meets a movie producer (Koji Ookura). They decide to visit tourist attractions in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Hachiko Hojo looks back upon her life along the way.

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“Round Trip Heart” – 2015 Japan Cuts Film Review

Yuki Tanada’s eighth feature is a quaint unassuming road trip picture that has all the hallmarks of the “Tradition of Quality”: fine acting, beautiful cinematography, and an inoffensive story with a satisfying conclusion. Yet like most “quality cinema” it is a forgettable picture that barely makes an impression on the viewer after the end credits begin to roll.

“Round Trip Heart” (ロマンス, 2015) follows one day in the life of 26-year-old Hachiko Hojo (Yuko Oshima). After a meet-cute with a bumbling passenger, Yoichi (Koji Ookura), who tries to steal a box of cookies from her cart, the two become inextricably linked as they end up touring the Hakone region together. Although the film sounds like a mere a rom-com travelogue – with a Japanese title that literally translates to romance – Tanada veers a hard left into more “serious” dramatic territory. The purpose of Hachiko’s journey is not to find love or to get away from some terrible person or situation in her life, but instead to confront her past. That past, revealed to us in snippets through flashback, revolves around a broken home and a lackadaisical mother who was more concerned about finding love rather than showing her daughter any kind of maternal affection.

What rescues the film from oblivion are Oshima and Ookura’s performances. Having first seen Ookura in Keralino Sandrovich’s “Crime or Punishment?!?” (2009) several years ago I was already well-aware of his comedic talents, but in this film he often manages to vacillate from caricature to dirty old man, caring friend and sad sack loser.  It can be jarring to watch an actor transition from one mask to another, but Ookura does so seamlessly and with as little mugging as possible.  As for former AKB48 member Oshima, she can sometimes seem more like a cipher than a character since she just reacts and makes no actual choices in the film except to go on the trip with Yoichi, but when placed next to Ookura’s expressive acting style the contrast between the two gives a lot of the long dialogue-ridden scenes much needed levity.

For those looking to pass the time with something akin to a competently made drama, “Round Trip Heart” is a safe bet: it doesn’t stand out from the large crowd of average character dramas being made all over the world and screened in festivals from all four corners.  But why do so when there is an unimaginable number of cinematic treasures out there yet to be discovered?

“Round Trip Heart” screens at the Japan Society in New York on Fri., July 10 at 6:30 p.m. as part of Japan Cuts 2015.  Director Yuki Tanada will appear at the screening.  For ticket information, go to japansociety.org .

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Round Trip Heart (2015)

• Release Date: 2015-08-29
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26-year-old Hachiko Hojo (Yuko Oshima) works as a train attendant, selling items on a cart. She's good at her job, but she lacks self confidence. One day, she meets a movie producer (Koji Ookura). They decide to visit tourist attractions in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Hachiko Hojo looks back upon her life along the way.

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Round Trip Heart | ロマンス J-Film

Presented by jicc, embassy of japan and the japan commerce association of washington dc.

Life is all about good-byes. Romance lies only in good-byes.

A chance encounter and farewell that takes place over a single day, set against the picturesque scenery of Hakone. Come away on a life-affirming little journey...

Hachiko Hojo (Yuko Oshima) is one of the top attendants on the famed Odakyu “Romancecar” luxury express train that travels from Shinjuku, Tokyo to Hakone in Kanagawa prefecture. On a day like any other when Hachiko was about to return to Tokyo, she runs into a movie producer named Yoichi (Koji Okura). When it is discovered that Hachiko's estranged mother may still be in Hakone, he convinces her to seek her out. This launches the pair on an incident-filled road trip around Hakone.

Starring Yuko Oshima, Koji Okura, Yoshimi Nozaki.

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Born in 1975 in Fukuoka, Japan, Yuki Tanada made her directorial debut in 2001 with MORU , which won the Grand Prix and Nikkatsu Brilliant Award at the Pia Film Festival. Documentary feature Takada Wataru - A Japanese Original ('04) premiered at the Tokyo International Film Festival. In 2007, Tanada wrote the screenplay for the hit film Sakuran , helmed by Mika Ninagawa, which had its international premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival. In 2008, Tanada's One Million Yen Girl was screened at the Montreal World Film Festival and she was awarded the New Directors Award by the Directors Guild of Japan. The film also won the audience award at the Udine Far East Film Festival. In 2012, The Cowards who Looked to The Sky premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Round Trip Heart marks Tanada's return to directing her own original screenplay for the first time in seven years.

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