Like Someone in Love

Like Someone in Love is a drama set in Tokyo, where a young woman and an elderly man meet under circumstances that neither of them fully understands at first. She is a student who earns money as a call girl; he is a former sociology professor. He brings her to his home, but what develops between them over the course of a single day bears little resemblance to the transaction that brought them together. The connection that forms is gentler and stranger than either expected, shaped by what each assumes about the other.

Abbas Kiarostami directed and wrote the screenplay, working outside his native Iran for the second time after Certified Copy. It is the twentieth of the twenty-two films he directed in chronological order, made between Certified Copy and Venice 70: Future Reloaded. The cast includes Rin Takanashi, Tadashi Okuno, Ryo Kase, Denden, Reiko Mori and Kaneko Kubota. The production was a French-Japanese co-production with a budget of about five million dollars.

On IMDb the film holds a rating of 7 out of 10 from roughly fourteen thousand votes, while on TMDB it sits at 6.9 out of 10 from a much smaller number of votes. A critics' rating of 7.3 out of 10 from ninety-nine reviews places it slightly above the audience scores.