Fine, Totally Fine
| Fine, Totally Fine | |
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| Directed by | Yosuke Fujita |
| Written by | Yosuke Fujita |
| Starring |
YosiYosi Arakawa Yoshino Kimura Yoshinori Okada |
| Cinematography | Yoshihiro Ikeuchi |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Fine, Totally Fine (全然大丈夫 Zenzen daijōbu) is a 2008 Japanese comedy film written and directed by Yosuke Fujita. It concerns two friends who are about to turn 30 who fall in love with the same girl.
Plot
It pictures the various people who are weak in the social adaptability comparatively in the comical by the warm look.
Teruo Tooyama ( Yosiyosi Arakawa ) who becomes 29 years old is working as the non-regular worker of the landscape gardening, living with his father who runs a secondhand bookstore. In his holidays, he enjoys making the mechanisms to make other people afraid and surprising with his friend Hisanobu Komori ( Yoshinori Okada ) who is doing an office worker. But Komori feels a little impatience, becoming 29 years old.
In some case, Teruo's father ( Keizo Kanie ) becomes depression, has slept and Teruo runs the secondhand bookstore instead of his father. Then, because of the sick recovery, his father who was asleep for a while went out to the travel of the roam.
Akari Kinoshita ( Yoshino Kimura ) is a mysterious woman who has an interest in the homeless woman artist who lives in the shore of the river. She makes painting pictures, observing the homeless woman her hobby. She comes to getting a job interviewing to some day, the company which takes charge of the cleaning of the medical care scene which Komori works for and Komori who took charge of interviewing by chance employs her.
Akari is troubled to learn work because her fingertips are clumsy. In some case, she is asked to push the switch of the elevator for the luggage but she has broken her bone of the forefinger, impatient. Moreover, while cleaning the floor at the operating room, on the blood, she has been slimy and has laid the medical instrument. Therefore, she has quit her job after consulting her boss. Komori is so anxious for Akari that he calls on her at her apartment and he introduces the work of a staff of Teruo's secondhand bookstore to her.
Teruo has liked Akari to have helped the store by and comes to have love to her. Komori, also, makes love grow stronger at the same time to Akari.
One day, an antique restoration craftsman Yuhara ( Naoki Tanaka ) came to the secondhand bookstore. He looked at the painting which was placed at the store. He asked Akari that he wanted to buy the painting, liking the picture which Akari painted but she has refused because it is not an article for sale. But she runs after the back of Yuhara, holding the painting immediately, anxious about the words of Yuhara and she tenders the painting to Yuhara. This thing becomes a chance and Akari and Yuhara come to associate.
Akari moves to the old city Nara with Yuhara who will learn the restoration technique of the Buddhist Statues. Teruo and Hisanobu Komori go to Nara, visit Akari and Yuhara and spend delightful days.
Awards
It won the Audience Award at the 2008 New York Asian Film Festival and the Nippon Connection Grand Prize.[1]
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