Sawako Decides

Sawako Decides , Kawa no Soko kara Konnichiwa? , Hello from the bottom of the river is a 2009 Japanese comedydrama film directed by Yuya Ishii. The film stars Hikari Mitsushima as Sawako.

In presentday Tokyo, 23yearold Sawako Kimura Hikari Mitsushima is in her fifth parttime job and with her fifth boyfriend since leaving high school. Kenichi Arai Masashi End is a secondrate designer at the toy company where Sawako works, and has a fouryearold daughter, Kayoko Kira Aihara. Kenichi keeps pressing Sawako to marry him, but she considers him only average as indeed she considers herself nothing special, and on top of that she dislikes children. At the same time, Sawakos uncle, Nobuo Ryo Iwamatsu keeps phoning, asking her to return to her hometown, as her father Tadao Kotaro Shiga is dying from cirrhosis of the liver and wants her to take over the failing freshwater clam packing company he owns. When Kenichi is fired from his toydesigner job, he persuades the reluctant Sawako to accept the offer to return home, and to take him and Kayoko along into the bargain. The trio arrive in the Pacific coast town of Kawaminami in southern Japan, where Sawako finds herself scorned by the womenfolk for having run away from home five years earlier with her high school tennis club captain, Yoshio Ryu Morioka. At this point Sawako is forced to decide what she wants to do with the company, Kenichi, Kayoko, and her whole life.Actress Hikari Mitsushima found the story to the film amusing and personally negotiated with director Yuya Ishii, saying that he would regret it if he didnt cast me. ........

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