Like Someone in Love(2012)
An old man and a young woman meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him, he thinks he knows her. He welcomes her into his home, she offers him her body. But the web that is woven between them in the space of twenty four hours bears no relation to the circumstances of their encounter.
Movie: Like Someone in Love
Top 10 Billed Cast
Akiko
Takashi
Noriaki
Hiroshi
The Mechanic
Nagisa's Friend
The Taxi Driver
Video Trailer Like Someone in Love
Video: Official Trailer [Subtitled]
![Official Trailer [Subtitled]](https://img.youtube.com/vi/A0cykyKMvE0/mqdefault.jpg)
Official Trailer [Subtitled]
TIFF Trailer
Abbas Kiarostami - LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE
Abbas Kiarostami at Indiana University
Abbas Kiarostami retrospective and behind the scenes of Like Someone NEWSROOM TOKYO (4th Nov 2016)
NYFF Press Conference: Like Someone in Love
Phillip Lopate Interviews Abbas Kiarostami at the 2012 New York Film Festival
All 7 videos
![Official Trailer [Subtitled]](https://img.youtube.com/vi/A0cykyKMvE0/sddefault.jpg)
Official Trailer [Subtitled] - Trailer
TIFF Trailer - Trailer
Abbas Kiarostami - LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE - Featurette
Abbas Kiarostami at Indiana University - Featurette
Abbas Kiarostami retrospective and behind the scenes of Like Someone NEWSROOM TOKYO (4th Nov 2016) - Featurette
NYFF Press Conference: Like Someone in Love - Featurette
Phillip Lopate Interviews Abbas Kiarostami at the 2012 New York Film Festival - Featurette
Recommendations Movies
Liverleaf(ja)
The story follows Nozaki Haruka, a middle school student who transfers to a new school in a small town because of her father's work. Unfortunately, she becomes a victim of horrific bullying, but since the school will be closing in 2 months after graduation, no one is willing to help her.
Love for Beginners(ja)
Hibino Tsubaki is a young teenage girl with a talent for styling other people's hair. Yet, Tsubaki suffers from low self-esteem and isn't very comfortable styling her own hair. She also has a tendency to dress old-fashioned. She's teased at high school because of this. One day, popular male student Tsubaki Kyota targets Tsubaki for teasing. Tsubaki Kyota holds sway over the entire classroom and is quite a playboy. Inexplicably they fall in love. Meanwhile, Tsubaki Kyota has commitment issues...
A Brand New Life(ko)
Young Jin-hee is taken by her father to an orphanage near Seoul. He leaves her there never to return, and she struggles to come to grips with her fate. Jin-hee desperately believes her father will come back for her and take her on a trip.
Bread of Happiness(ja)
A couple decide to relocate from Tokyo to the northern island of Hokkaido where they settle and establish a bakery and café called Mani. One cooks. The other bakes. Everyone walks out happy.
There Was a Father(ja)
Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.
Cairo Station(ar)
Qinawi, a physically challenged peddler who makes his living selling newspapers in the central Cairo train station, is obsessed with Hanuma, an attractive young woman who sells drinks. While she jokes with him about a possible relationship, she is actually in love with Abu Siri, a strong and respected porter at the station who is struggling to unionize his fellow workers to combat their boss' exploitative and abusive treatment.
Villain(ja)
Shimizu Yuichi is a shy and lonely day laborer looking for love. He aimlessly spends time corresponding with girls via telephone dating services and going on random encounters with girls looking for spending cash. His world is shattered one day when he is involved in the murder of one of his former encounters, the sweet-faced Ishibashi Yoshino who, after being jilted by playboy Masuo Keijo, berates and mocks the troubled loner.
Beans(en)
Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: torn between innocent childhood and reckless adolescence; forced to grow up fast and become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the Oka Crisis, the turbulent Indigenous uprising that tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990.
Kon-Tiki(no)
"Kon-Tiki" was the name of a wooden raft used by six Scandinavian scientists, led by Thor Heyerdahl, to make a 101-day journey from South America to the Polynesian Islands. The purpose of the expedition was to prove Heyerdal's theory that the Polynesian Islands were populated from the east- specifically Peru- rather than from the west (Asia) as had been the theory for hundreds of years. Heyerdahl made a study of the winds and tides in the Pacific, and by simulating conditions as closely as possible to those he theorized the Peruvians encountered, set out on the voyage.
My Sister’s Good Fortune(de)
A young photographer has fallen in love with his girlfriend's sister, throwing the trio into chaos.
Close-Up(fa)
This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.
Life, and Nothing More…(fa)
After the earthquake of Guilan, a film director and his son travel to the devastated area to search for the actors from the movie the director made there a few years previously. In their search, they see how people who have lost everything in the earthquake still have hope and try to live life to the fullest.
Like Mike 2: Streetball(en)
Another young boy with 'hoop dreams' finds an old pair of Michael Jordan's sneakers and can suddenly play ball like the greatest player in the world.
Lu Over the Wall(ja)
In a small fishing village, a gloomy middle school student named Kai meets a mermaid named Lu.
The Macaluso Sisters(it)
Maria, Pinuccia, Lia, Katia and Antonella are five sisters who live in an apartment in Palermo. They make a living by renting doves for ceremonies. On a normal day at the beach, tragedy strucks.
You Are the Apple of My Eye(zh)
A group of close friends who attend a private school all have a debilitating crush on the sunny star pupil, Shen Chia-yi. The only member of the group who claims not to is Ko Ching-teng, but he ends up loving her as well.
Jab We Met(hi)
A depressed wealthy businessman and a spunky carefree young woman embark on an unexpected journey that changes their lives.
Beau Travail(fr)
Foreign Legion officer Galoup recalls his once glorious life, training troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, until the arrival of a promising young recruit, Sentain, plants the seeds of jealousy in Galoup's mind.
Goodbye Berlin(de)
Maik, a fourteen-year-old teenager, sets out on a road trip during summertime with Tschick, a new classmate, in a stolen car. The two share life changing experiences during the eventful journey.
2-Headed Shark Attack(en)
A Semester at Sea ship is attacked and sunk by a mutated two-headed shark, and the survivors seek refuge on a deserted atoll. The coeds, however, are no longer safe when the atoll starts flooding.
Similar Movies
Fleshpot on 42nd Street(en)
Dusty, a street smart but desperately unhappy Times Square sex worker uses her body to survive; seducing, conning, and ripping off her johns.
Doctor Faustus(de)
A musician beds down a prostitute he knows is diseased in order to gain inspiration, an act he later believes to have been a tacit pact with Satan
I Am Here(en)
Successful businesswoman Maria has achieved everything except what she wants the most - a baby of her own. She decides to deal with the matter by herself and embarks on a desperate and dangerous journey in order to make her dream come true.
Dillinger(en)
After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Federal law they sort out several other mobsters, while Dillinger's bank robbing exploits make him something of a folk hero. Escaping from jail he finds Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson have joined the gang and pretty soon he is Public Enemy Number One. Now the G-men really are after him.
Kabukicho Love Hotel(ja)
This erotically charged drama traces the intersecting stories of a group of employees and visitors at a notorious "love hotel" in Tokyo's red-light district.
Transfixed(fr)
Bo is a transexual prostitute in Brussels who left home after being abused by her father. She's infuatuated with a neighbor and suspected by the police in a series of transexual murders. In order to clear herself she must turn detective.
Only We Know(tl)
When a retired professor and a widowed engineer in his 40s bond after a chance meeting, their conversations on life and love turn into something more.
Emanuelle Around the World(it)
The increasingly politicised Emanuelle gets deeper into fighting an international trade composed of sex, violence and high profile players.
Pretty Baby(en)
In 1917 New Orleans, a 12-year-old girl is raised in a brothel by her prostitute mother.
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things(en)
Young Jeremiah lives in a stable environment with loving foster parents until the day his troubled mother, Sarah, returns to claim him. Jeremiah becomes swept up in his mother's dangerous world of drugs, seedy hotels, strip joints and revolving lovers. Salvation comes in the form of the boy's ultrareligious grandparents, but soon Jeremiah's mother returns. Maternal love binds the pair together on the road until Sarah's desperate and depraved lifestyle finally consumes her.
Spirits in the Dark(en)
A lonely widower finds a mysterious video on his computer that leads him to an abandoned town occupied by an ominous entity.
Paradise in Service(zh)
Set in the island Kinmen, often seen as the most dangerous military base because it’s geographically close to China, "Paradise in Service" follows the adventure of a boy who serves his military service in Unit 831 from 1969 to 1972, in preparation for a war that could erupt anytime. Through an unlucky lottery draw result, Pao, a twenty-something young man from Southern Taiwan has to serve the military in the remote and perilous Kinmen. Moreover, he is assigned to the Sea Dragon (ARB), a unit noted for the toughest physical training. It never occurs to Pao, however, that the greatest challenge in his military service lies not in the Sea Dragon but in Unit 831, a special task he is later appointed to… In this peculiar assignment, Pao vows to keep his virginity against all odds.
Chandni Bar(hi)
The gritty life of the Mumbai underworld, including prostitution, dance bars and gun crime.
Mother Knows Best(en)
A hooker named Flame (Candy Samples) teaches her teenage daughter Flower (Suzanne Fields) the tricks of the trade in this soft-core film.
The American(en)
Dispatched to a small Italian town to await further orders, assassin Jack embarks on a double life that may be more relaxing than is good for him.
Backyard(es)
Officer Blanca Bravo arrives in Juarez, Mexico — a grim nexus of corporate colonialism and sexual tourism — to investigate a rash of killings targeting female migrant workers. But with no help from the locals, bringing the responsible parties to justice becomes a frustrating exercise. As Bravo rails against indifference and local corruption, she finds herself on a collision course with Mickey Santos, a Mexican mogul with a taste for young prostitutes.