Like Someone in Love
Abbas Kiarostami has spent his incomparable career exploring the spaces that separate illusion from reality and the simulated from the authentic. At first, his extraordinary and sly Like Someone in Love, which finds the Iranian director in Tokyo, may appear to be among his most straightforward films. Yet with this simple story of the growing bond between a young student and part-time call girl and a grandfatherly client, Kiarostami has constructed an enigmatic but crystalline investigation of affection and desire as complex as his masterful Close-up and Certified Copy in its engagement with the workings of the mercurial human heart.
Director-Approved Special Edition Features
- New digital master, approved by director Abbas Kiarostami, with 3.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Forty-five-minute documentary on the making of the film
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar and critic Nico Baumbach
New cover by Sarah Habibi
Director-Approved Special Edition Features
- New digital master, approved by director Abbas Kiarostami, with 3.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Forty-five-minute documentary on the making of the film
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar and critic Nico Baumbach
New cover by Sarah Habibi
Cast
- Tadashi Okuno
- Takashi Watanabe
- Rin Takanashi
- Akiko
- Ryo Kase
- Noriaki
- Denden
- Hiroshi
- Reiko Mori
- Nagisa
- Mihoko Suzuki
- The neighbor
- Hiroyuki Kishi
- Old student
Credits
- Director
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Produced by
- Marin Karmitz
- Produced by
- Kenzo Horikoshi
- Associate producers
- Nathanaël Karmitz
- Associate producers
- Charles Gillibert
- Original screenplay
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Cinematography
- Katsumi Yanagijima
- Editing by
- Bahman Kiarostami
- Assistant editor
- Edishogo Yokoyama
- Sound mixers
- Nobuyuki Kikuchi
- Sound mixers
- Mohamadreza Delpak
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