Winner
Tokyo International Film Festival
Audience Award (Tokyo Premiere 2020) (2020)
AsianWomenDirectorsPublic Beta
Hold Me Back
私をくいとめて (Watashi wo Kuitomete)
Directed by Akiko Ohku (大九明子)
2020•133 min
- Genre
- Comedy
- Topic
- Love & Desire
- Mood
- Tender
- Language
- Japanese
Synopsis
Mitsuko Kuroda is 31 years old and single. She enjoys her life as a single woman. A big reason why she enjoys her single life is that she has counsellor "A" in her mind, which is her other self. Whenever she does not know what to do, "A" gives her the right answers. She believes her happy and peaceful single life with "A" will continue, but she falls in love with Tada-kun. He is a salesperson and younger than her.
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Selected Awards
Winner
Japan Film Critics Awards
Best Director (2021)
Winner
Japan Film Critics Awards
Best Actress (2021)
Footnote
- First
Second TIFF Audience Award for the same director — With this win Ohku became the only director to take the Tokyo International Film Festival Audience Award twice, after Tremble All You Want (2017)
Main Cast
NonMitsuko Kuroda
Kento HayashiTada
Asami UsudaNozomi
Takuya WakabayashiCarter
Hairi KatagiriSawada
Ai HashimotoSatsuki
Tomoya NakamuraA (voice)
Yuumi Goto
