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Released
2012 · FILM

Like Someone in Love

A young student and an elderly man form an unexpected emotional bond during a single night in Tokyo, blurring the lines between desire, loneliness, and connection.

Runtime
109 min
Language
JA
Drama

Synopsis

An old man and a young woman meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him, and he believes he knows her. He invites her into his home, and she offers him her body. However, the connection that forms between them over the course of twenty-four hours has little to do with the actual circumstances of their meeting.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Bahman KiarostamiShot by Katsumi Yanagijima

Box Office

2012 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$563K

Budget$4.8M
Worldwide gross$563K
break-even (2.5×)

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  • Qualcuno da amareit

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