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"Saving money is the best entertainment and the perfect way to kill time." So said Katakura Yui, a 40-year-old single woman. She has deliberately avoided anything she deems to be uneconomical, including romance, marriage, and childbirth. During a free medical examination, she is diagnosed with cancer and told she only has a year left to live. Although the doctor urges surgery, Yui secretly feels relieved. "If I’m going to die, there’s no need to save money anymore." Her life shifts when Sena, a pink-haired nightclub host down on his luck, unexpectedly approaches asking, "Can you lend me some money?" Yui responds by “buying” him for 720,000 yen. What begins as an odd arrangement gradually becomes a warm, unconventional bond, and to their surprise, an unpredictable love gradually starts to take shape between them. (Source: Netflix) ~~ Adapted from the novel "One Year to Live, Buy a Man" (余命一年、男をかう) by Yoshikawa Toriko (吉川トリコ). Edit Translation
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- Native Title: 余命一年、男をかう
- Also Known As: Yomei Ichi Nen, Otoko wo Kau
- Screenwriter: Okada Yoshikazu
- Director: Kazama Hiroki
- Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
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Cast & Credits
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![Shibasaki Ko in One Year to Live, Buy a Man Japanese Movie(2026)]( "Shibasaki Ko in One Year to Live, Buy a Man Japanese Movie(2026)")
Shibasaki KoKatakura YuiMain Role -
![Akaso Eiji in One Year to Live, Buy a Man Japanese Movie(2026)]( "Akaso Eiji in One Year to Live, Buy a Man Japanese Movie(2026)")
Akaso EijiSena YoshitakaMain Role -
![Tsutsui Michitaka in One Year to Live, Buy a Man Japanese Movie(2026)]( "Tsutsui Michitaka in One Year to Live, Buy a Man Japanese Movie(2026)")
Tsutsui MichitakaIkuyama MakotoSupport Role -
![Nishida Naomi in One Year to Live, Buy a Man Japanese Movie(2026)]( "Nishida Naomi in One Year to Live, Buy a Man Japanese Movie(2026)")
Nishida NaomiMaruyama MizuhoSupport Role -
![Narumi Yui in One Year to Live, Buy a Man Japanese Movie(2026)]( "Narumi Yui in One Year to Live, Buy a Man Japanese Movie(2026)")
Narumi YuiSena Nachi [Yoshitaka's younger sister]Support Role -
![Miyase Ryubi in One Year to Live, Buy a Man Japanese Movie(2026)]( "Miyase Ryubi in One Year to Live, Buy a Man Japanese Movie(2026)")
Miyase RyubiKiriyaSupport Role
Reviews
A really lovely film!
I have mixed feelings on Japanese dramas and films. The FLs often times infuriate me because they always seem to go along with whatever stupid thing someone else tells them to do. I have to say that this going to the top of my list as one of my favorite J-movies. If you are looking for chemistry and passion, you should pass on this one, but you would be missing out. It's more about the story and the development of the characters and I loved it. The OST was amazing also.Was this review helpful to you?
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Great premise, yet the story fell flat.
I have high expectation for this drama, first of all, the title is great, super attractive and captivating. Then I liked how the movie started, enough tension to draw the viewer in... The premise was so good too: a lonely and stiff woman in modern Japan only got a year to live, and she decided to go all out in life, to be free and crazy and luxurious and love and hate like never before. And the male partner was good too, a host in Kabukicho, a natural womanizer with a caring and thoughtful manner (and he could cook too!). There were plenty clues that pointed to a good drama ahead. But no :) The premise was there, but the story was nowhere to be found. The meet-cute between ML and FL was not persuasive, I couldn't see how ML could come and ask FL for such a favor... Then I blamed the movie for skipping or avoiding all the key details. For example: it never tried to explain/show how the ML felt the FL "loveable", or at least tried to convince us that ML wanted to stay by FL's side because he felt touched, warm or something like that. One more scene that bothered me a lot was the first encounter between FL and ML's sister, FL was met with harsh and brutal words from that spoiled sister, and I really couldn't understand the motives or background story behind that personal attack (and funnily how these two girls got along so very well by the end of the movie, out of the blue). In short, all the premise of the movie wasn't translated into a convincing story. It's all over the places, the story was scattered and somehow made me feel like it tried too hard to be a 'slice of life' drama where every sad/bad sides of ppl should be met with natural empathy, if I don't feel it, then I must be a stupid/bad person :( But sorry, I don't like this movie a bit, I don't feel any chemistry between ML and FL (even as partners in crime/partners in life, not in a sense of romance), the relationships between the leads and the ppl close to them are haft-hearted too ( or 2 hours are not enough to portray anything convincing?). The only good thing about this movie maybe the aesthtics of cinematography, and that's all for me. Sad but true.Was this review helpful to you?
