“The story of our beginning given by "goodbye".”
College student Sota picks up a cassette tape left behind by musician Aki when he died a year ago. When the tape is played back, Aki takes over Sota's body for just 30 minutes. They share the same body and rush to reunite a band that split up and bring a smile to Aki's girlfriend Kana's face.
Mackenyu
Aki Miyata
Takumi Kitamura
Sota Kubota
Sayu Kubota
Kana Murase
Shono Hayama
Kenta Yamashina
Shuhei Uesugi
Koki Shigeta
Sho Kiyohara
Ryosuke Mori
Riho Makise
Shinobu Murase
Michitaka Tsutsui
Shuichi Kubota
Yutaka Matsushige
Fujio Yoshii
Our 30-Minute Sessions is a drama, fantasy, romance, music, comedy film released in 2020 exploring themes of friendship, musician, body exchange, music festival, love, grief. Directed by Kentaro Hagiwara, it stars Mackenyu, Takumi Kitamura, Sayu Kubota. College student Sota picks up a cassette tape left behind by musician Aki when he died a year ago. When the tape is played back, Aki takes over Sota's body for just 30 minutes. They share the same body and rush to reunite a band that split up and bring a smile to Aki's girlfriend Kana's face.
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