Trailer: ‘Riverside Mukolitta’
By Phil Mills | Aug 29, 2022
‘Riverside Mukolitta’ (川っぺりムコリッタ) is a 2022 Japanese comedy-drama written and directed by Naoko Ogigami.
Based on Ogigami’s own novel, the film follows a lonely young man who moves into a 50-year-old apartment building and begins to make friends with the other residents. The cast includes Kenichi Matsuyama, Tsuyoshi Muro, Hikari Mitsushima, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Noriko Eguchi, Tasuku Emoto, Misako Tanaka, and Naoto Ogata.
Synopsis: Takeshi (Kenichi Matsuyama) arrives in a small village in the Hokuriku region. There, he begins to work at a small factory which makes shiokara (salted fish paste). Through the introduction of the CEO of the factory, he begins to live in an old and cheap apartment building. One day, his apartment building neighbour, Kozo (Tsuyoshi Muro) visits Takeshi and asks to take a bath in his bathroom. Since then, Takeshi begins to make relations with the residents at the apartment building and he becomes friends with Kozo. Later, Kozo learns the secret of why Takeshi came to the village. [Source: AsianWiki]
‘Riverside Mukolitta’ opens across Japan on September 16, 2022.
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