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  • 2021
  • Rabbit House Co.
  • 3 h 52 m
  • 2021
  • Rabbit House Co.
  • 3 h 52 m

Summary After a floundering toy salesman rescues a beguiling woman whose car was stuck on the train tracks, she inadvertently whisks him into an epic series of misadventures that turn his life upside down. While his once humdrum routine was already complicated by two female co-workers, he soon finds himself entrenched with gangsters, strange int...

Directed By: Kôji Fukada

Written By: Mochiru Hoshisato, Shintaro Mitani, Kôji Fukada

  • 2021
  • Rabbit House Co.
  • 3 h 52 m
  • 2021
  • Rabbit House Co.
  • 3 h 52 m

The Real Thing

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary After a floundering toy salesman rescues a beguiling woman whose car was stuck on the train tracks, she inadvertently whisks him into an epic series of misadventures that turn his life upside down. While his once humdrum routine was already complicated by two female co-workers, he soon finds himself entrenched with gangsters, strange int...

Directed By: Kôji Fukada

Written By: Mochiru Hoshisato, Shintaro Mitani, Kôji Fukada

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
68
83% Positive
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17% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
68
83% Positive
5 Reviews
0% Mixed
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17% Negative
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100
Jun 4, 2021
Enough coincidence and happenstance exists in this film to fill a dozen studio love stories, but that doesn’t mean any of it is unearned. There’s no safety net here, making Tsuji and Ukiyo’s epic tale of unrequited love, absence, and yearning the ultimate leap of faith.
By Glenn Heath Jr. FULL REVIEW
75
Jun 1, 2021
Though it comes with good credentials, four hours feels like a lot of screen real estate for a what is essentially an elevated soap opera. For the home-streaming viewer though, The Real Thing meets the essential requirements for binge-watching: it’s undemanding to follow but sustains enough of a mystery to keep us hooked.
By Liam Lacey FULL REVIEW
75
The film reveals Kôji Fukada to be playing a patient, very resonant long game, underscoring the struggle to wrest oneself out of social vices.
By Chuck Bowen FULL REVIEW
67
Jun 3, 2021
There’s no selling out here. No concessions to mainstream taste. On the contrary, The Real Thing might be the purest — if not the most concise — work yet from an emerging auteur who’s singularly compelled by the friction between public order and private chaos.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
63
Aug 24, 2021
A tale of boy-meets-girl, girl-wrecks-boys-life told with sublime melancholy by Japanese auteur Kôji Fukada, The Real Thing plays like the darkest “romantic comedy” you ever saw.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
25
Jun 4, 2021
There are a lot of fragmentary ideas in The Real Thing, but they’re not cohesive or worthwhile as they’re loosely formed into one grey 232-minute lump.
By Simon Abrams FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Nagoya Broadcasting Network (Nagoya TV)
Release Date Jun 4, 2021
Duration 3 h 52 m
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Website https://www.nagoyatv.com/honki/
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Awards

Pingyao International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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