Part of the 2022 season: What Lies Beneath
Will I Be Single Forever?
Zutto dokushin de irutsumori, ずっと独身でいるつもり?
Director FUKUDA Momoko
Cast TANAKA Minami, ICHIKAWA Miwako, MATSUMURA Sayuri
UK Premiere, 2021, 94 min, English Subtitles
Mami (TANAKA Minami) is a writer in her thirties who shot to fame a decade prior when she published an essay on the value and happiness to be found in living as an independent woman. Though the essay gained her a mass readership, her more recent writing has not been successful. As she finds herself in this slump, she begins to worry about remaining single for the rest of her life. Meanwhile, three other women have gradually begun to doubt their own beliefs and lives – Yukino (ICHIKAWA Miwako), who, inspired by Mami’s book, is determined to stay single; Ayaka (TOKUNAGA Eri), a mother of one who is an Instagram housewife; and Miho (MATSUMURA Sayuri) who uses her youthful charms while earning a living as a sugar baby.
Based on a beloved comic, female director FUKUDA Momoko helms this perceptive and sensitive depiction of the relatable lives of four women and their conflicted emotions, as they do their best to be happy in a Japanese society where singledom has been on the rise.
Past screenings
- Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) Sunday 6 February, 15:50
- Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) Sunday 13 February, 15:15
- Queen's Film Theatre Saturday 26 February, 15:00
- Plymouth Arts Cinema Tuesday 8 March, 17:45
- Broadway Friday 18 March, 20:00
- Filmhouse Thursday 24 March, 18:00
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All films in this season
- Aristocrats
- Ora, Ora Be Goin' Alone
- Tomorrow’s Dinner Table
- colorless
- The Hunter’s Diary
- Iwane: Sword of Serenity
- Liar x Liar
- Spaghetti Code Love
- Blue
- The House of the Lost on the Cape
- Shrieking in the Rain
- The Sound of Grass
- The Voice of Sin
- THE CONFIDENCE MAN JP -The Movie-
- Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction
- The Lone Ume Tree
- First Love
- Will I Be Single Forever?
- Life: Untitled
- Eternally Younger Than Those Idiots