Ripe for the Picking is a Japanese romantic drama exploring the love lives of four women living through the toxic work culture of corporate Japan. This series shows how these characters become victims of loneliness and unrealistic beauty standards. This series even hints at the decreasing levels of intimate relationships, which in Japan is a raging issue affecting more than a million individuals. Ripe for the Picking is based on the manga of the same name by Azusa Itakura.
Kosaka Maiko is a 32-year-old woman working at a corporate firm in Japan. Kosaka has a pretty successful work life, but the biggest problem in her personal life is that she’s a virgin. In reality, there is nothing wrong with that, but for Kosaka, it’s pretty embarrassing. Kosaka’s peers pretty openly talk about physical intimacy, but this 32-year-old woman is only left wondering about what it actually feels...
Kosaka Maiko is a 32-year-old woman working at a corporate firm in Japan. Kosaka has a pretty successful work life, but the biggest problem in her personal life is that she’s a virgin. In reality, there is nothing wrong with that, but for Kosaka, it’s pretty embarrassing. Kosaka’s peers pretty openly talk about physical intimacy, but this 32-year-old woman is only left wondering about what it actually feels...
- 4/15/2024
- by Shrey Ashley Philip
- Film Fugitives
After shooting a number of excellent documentaries, Tatsuya Mori decided to shoot a feature film, about a little known incident that took place just after the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923. The movie left Busan with the New Currents Award.
September 1923 screened at Busan International Film Festival
From the film’s production notes: On September 1, 1923, at 11:58 Am, the Great Kanto Earthquake struck Tokyo, the capital of Japan. On September 6, just five days after the disaster, nine peddlers, including a pregnant woman and small children, were slain near Tone River by more than 100 villagers, vigilantes among them, in Fukuda Village, Higashi-Katsushika in Chiba Prefecture. The victims were part of a group of 15 people, itinerant medicine vendors from Kagawa Prefecture. The villagers killed them, mistaking them for Koreans when they heard them speaking in their dialect. Eight vigilantes were arrested and sentenced to prison. However, they were granted an amnesty concerning the...
September 1923 screened at Busan International Film Festival
From the film’s production notes: On September 1, 1923, at 11:58 Am, the Great Kanto Earthquake struck Tokyo, the capital of Japan. On September 6, just five days after the disaster, nine peddlers, including a pregnant woman and small children, were slain near Tone River by more than 100 villagers, vigilantes among them, in Fukuda Village, Higashi-Katsushika in Chiba Prefecture. The victims were part of a group of 15 people, itinerant medicine vendors from Kagawa Prefecture. The villagers killed them, mistaking them for Koreans when they heard them speaking in their dialect. Eight vigilantes were arrested and sentenced to prison. However, they were granted an amnesty concerning the...
- 10/15/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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