1st NYAFF Winter Showcase

Feb 1-3 & 8-10, 2019

Photo: © Toei Video

100 Yen Love

百円の恋

Powered by Ando Sakura's tour de force performance, this shoot-from-the-hip character study stars the Shoplifters actress as 32-year-old slacker Ichiko. She still lives with her parents, without a job or any ambition in life. After a blowout fight with her sister, she leaves home and lives hand-to-mouth working at a 100-yen "dollar store". When she becomes enamored with a local boxer, she starts a life-changing journey of redemption and empowerment. Ando's transformation from lazy loser to driven heroine, for which she won rounds of Japan's Best Actress awards, is a knockout punch that will leave audiences cheering in the aisles.

Director: Take Masaharu
Cast: Inagawa Miyoko, Arai Hirofumi, Ando Sakura
Languages: Japanese with English Subtitles
2014; 113 min.; DCP

SCHEDULE:

Friday February 8, 7:30pm
SVA Theatre