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Top 7 Billed Cast

Ren Sudo
須藤蓮

Akira

Haya Nakazaki
Haya Nakazaki

Yoshioka

Eriko Tomiyama
富山えり子

Fumie

Aki Kigoshi
KIGOSHI AKI

Miko

Kazunori Mimura
Kazunori Mimura

Iona
Iona

Chiemi Matsutera
松寺千恵美

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    It is the middle of summer in Onomichi in the 1970s, and 22-year-old Akira returns home with Yoshioka, his senior at university. Akira offers his parents' house to Yoshioka, whom he likes, and suggests that they spend their summer vacation together. To keep the senior occupied, Akira comes up with the idea of inviting a girl to go out and play. He asks his childhood friend Fumie to find some girls who are bored, and Miko, who has a bit of an unusual personality, joins him, and the four of them start hanging out. Eventually, Yoshioka's eyes on Meeko grow hotter and hotter, which annoys Akira.

  • Release Date

    2021-07-17

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