Boys on the Run
2010 · Movie · 114 min. · Japan
A coming-of-age comedy based on popular comic (manga) from Hanazawa Kengo about Tanishi (Kazunobu Mineta), a 29-year-old virgin who works as a “capsule toy salesman in Akihabara”. He spends most of his time with a huge obsession for his pretty co-worker, otherwise watching porn movies. He suddenly finds his whole life turned upside down when a golden opportunity arrives for him to spend time with his dream girl, Chiharu (Mei Kurokawa), but she leads him into an intense rivalry with Aoyama (Ryûhei Matsuda), an elite and good-looking salesman.
Direction Daisuke Miura
Cast Kazunobu Mineta · Mei Kurokawa · Ryuhei Matsuda · You · Denden · Yuya Endo · Lily Franky · Ryô Iwamatsu · Kaoru Kobayashi · Eiko Ohtani · Kiyohiko Shibukawa · Yûko Yamamoto · Ryôtarô Yonemura
Soundtrack Yoshiki Sakurai
Screenplay Daisuke Miura · Kengo Hanazawa
Cinematography Shinya Kimura
Original title Bôizu on za ran (Boys on the Run)
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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