"Although “Double Life” is permeated by a subtle sense of melancholia, it casts a deeply positive glance at life's ability to adjust itself, as long as we realise that we need to work with the problems rather than against them"

Asian Movie Pulse
  • Archive - Festival 39
  • Director: Enen Yo
  • Japan, China 2022
  • 103 minutes
  • Japanese
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Shiori's husband decides not to attend a workshop he was supposed to attend with his wife. Shiori asks Junnosuke, a fill-in introduced by Shiori's colleague, to join the workshop as her acting husband. Satisfied with Junnosuke, Shiori secretly rents an apartment and begins a pseudo-marital life with him.

Double Life, a gentle and ironic drama, unfolds through the workshops and modern dance. In this subtle, candid, bold debut, filmmaker Enen Yo explores the unique Japanese custom of renting a substitute person for important events in someone's life, a plot twist that helps Shiori gain a new perspective on herself and others.

Feature Debut

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  • Director Enen Yo
  • Production Noriyuki Kobayashi
  • Script Enen Yo
  • Cinematography Takumi Kohama
  • Editing Enen Yo
  • Music Haru Kawashima
  • Festivals Tallinn Black Nights, Skip City (Best Japanese Film Award)
  • Actors Atsuko Kikuchi, Shingo Matsuoka, Hiromi Furukawa, Hiromi Wakasa, Mai Asada
  • Source Skip City