For Love's Sake (2012)

Original title

愛と誠

Directed by

Takashi Miike

Genre

musical film

Country

Japan

Runtime

2h 13m

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 32 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A rich girl falls for a poor delinquent boy and tries to reform him through her devotion and a series of musical numbers. Their love story gets tangled up with rival gangs and schoolyard battles.

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What happens

For Love's Sake (愛と誠, Ai to Makoto) is a 2012 Japanese experimental musical romance film directed by Takashi Miike based on the manga series Ai to Makoto by Ikki Kajiwara and Takumi Nagayasu. It premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 21, 2012, where it was presented out of competition. Previous adaptations of the manga series had been titled Love and Truth in English but this 2012 film version was alternatively titled For Love's Sake in English. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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