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新宿パンチ

新宿パンチ poster
Directed by
Hideo Jōjō
Country
Japan

How it feels

A naive 22-year-old virgin from the countryside goes to Tokyo wearing his father's best suit. He tries to find the phone dating club where his parents met, but it is closed, and he gets caught up in a situation with a bar hostess he meets at a batting center.

quirkylightheartedcoming-of-agewhimsicalslightly surrealnostalgicoffbeatearthy

What happens

『新宿パンチ』(しんじゅくパンチ)は、城定秀夫監督の日本映画。2018年12月1日公開。 ド田舎から父親の一張羅を着こんで憧れの地、東京へやってきた天然パーマの22歳、童貞・道場方正(小澤廉)。いざ両親が出会ったテレクラへと足を向けるが、そこは廃業しており、歌舞伎町の光と影に意気消沈。たまたま入ったバッティングセンターでやけにいい素振りをするガールズバー店員と出会い、彼女にまつわるトラブルに巻き込まれる。 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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