History Film / Asako1And2

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''Asako I & II'' is a 2018 Japanese romantic drama by Ryūsuke Hamaguchi based on a novel by Tomoka Shibasaki.

Asako is a young woman who first is a student in Osaka. One day she starts dating an eccentric man named Baku, who suddenly disappears. Two years later, she has moved to Tokyo without telling most friends from Osaka, and she meets a man named Ryohei, who looks exactly like Baku (and indeed they are played by the same actor). She starts dating him, without him knowing that he looks exactly like her first love. Five years later, as they live together, Asako learns that Baku is now a celebrity and gets an opportunity to find him.

!!Tropes:
* BettyAndVeronica: Baku is the Veronica -- handsome, charming, and fascinating, but unreliable, careless, and unapologetic -- to Ryohei's placid and boring, but loving and dependable Betty.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Asako ultimately chooses to stay with Ryohei instead of the unreliable Baku. However, her actions when attempting to reignite her relationship with Baku result in Ryohei ''considerably'' less certain of their relationship and both admit that she might never be able to fully regain his trust. The future of their relationship after that is left ambiguous.]]
* BurningTheShips: [[spoiler: When Asako leaves Ryohei, she has a short phone conversation with a friend they had in common, to whom she says she will never come back; then she throws her phone onto the highway.]]
* IdenticalStranger: Baku and Ryohei are this to each other.
* InsecureLoveInterest: [[spoiler:When Asako finally admits to Ryohei why she was first attracted to him, he reveals that he knows he looks identical to Baku and that he isn't upset, because he would have done anything to be with her -- even if it meant just bearing an identical resemblance to her real love.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: Asako moves away from Osaka without telling any of her friends, starts dating a guy because he looks like her ex, [[spoiler:then dumps him when said ex -- for whom she's held a torch for ''seven years'' of no contact, no less -- arrives to whisk her away, despite Ryohei being nothing but good to her.]] When she visits an old friend who now has [=ALS=], she can't stop talking about her problems and even breaks down, realizing how selfish she's been.
* LostInTranslation: When Asako first meets Ryohei, she calls him Baku. He seems to believed that she called him a tapir and feels insulted.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Between Asako and Baku.
* LoveConfession: Ryohei makes one to Asako after several awkward interactions.
* LoveMakesYouStupid: [[spoiler:Asako throws away her future with the loving, devoted Ryohei for a man who abandoned her without a word and didn't try to contact her in seven years. Multiple characters call her out on this.]]
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Deconstructed. Baku's bizarre nature may be charming, but it doesn't make him a stable romantic partner. To Ryohei, Asako comes off as a MPDG, while the audience is privy to her private history that's motivating her actions.
* OldFlame: Baku to Asako, after seven years of being TheOneThatGotAway.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Interestingly, Asako is seemingly made to be viewed as this by the audience, a somewhat FlatCharacter whose life is made more interesting by the person she's dating -- which is why she's more drawn to Baku.
* SwitchingPOV: Asako is the protagonist in the first part when she meets Baku. Then as she meets Ryohei, we are shown his point of view as she act in a very strange manner. When she finds out that Baku is around, the POV is hers again and we no longer know what the men think.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Asako breaks down when visiting an old friend who now has [=ALS=] after venting about her problems, realizing that she can't stop being selfish.

Asako is a young woman who first is a student in Osaka. One day she starts dating an excentric man named Baku, who suddenly disappears. Two years later, she has moved to Tokyo without telling most friends from Osaka, and she meets a man named Ryohei, who looks exactly like Baku (and indeed they are played by the same actor). She starts dating him, without him knowing that he looks exactly like her first love. Five years later, as they live together, Asako learns that Baku is now a celebrity and gets an opportunity to find him.

Asako is a young woman who first is a student in Osaka. One day she starts dating an excentric man named Baku, who suddenly disappears. Two days later, she has moved to Tokyo without telling most friends from Osaka, and she meets a man named Ryohei, who looks exactly like Baku (and indeed they are played by the same actor). She starts dating him, without him knowing that he looks exactly like her first love. Five days later, as they live together, Asako learns that Baku is now a celebrity and gets an opportunity to find him.

* LoveAtFirstSight: Between Osaka and Baku.

* BurningTheShips: [[spoiler: When Asako leaves Ryohei, she has a short phone conversation with a friend they had in commonn, to whom she says she will never come back; then she throws her phone onto the highway.]]

Asako I & II is a 2018 Japanese romantic drama by Ryūsuke Hamaguchi based on a novel by Tomoka Shibasaki.

* SwitchingPOV: Asako is the protagonist in the first part when she meets Baku. Then as she meets Ryohei, we are shown his point of view as she act in a very strange manner. When she finds out that Baku is around, the POV is on her again and we no longer know what the men think.

* BurningTheShips: [[spoiler: When Asako leaves Ryohei, she has a short phone conversation with a friend they had in commonn, to whom she says she will never come back; then she throws her phone out the window of a car.]]

Asako is a young woman who first is a student in Osaka. One day she starts dating an excentric man named Baku, who suddenly disappears. Two days later, she has moved to Tokyo without telling most friends from Osaka, and she meets a man named Ryohei, who looks exactly like Baku (and indeed they are played by the same actor). She starts dating him, without him knowing that he looks exactly like her first love. Five days later, as they live together, Asako learns that Baku is now a celebrity and knows where to find him.

* TheOneThatGotAway: Baku to Asako.
* OldFlame: Baku to Asako.

* TheOneThatGotAway: Baku is this to Asako.

* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The original title seems to be completely different from the English one. Also one may wonder how Asako I & II describes this film.

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