Prodded by a friend request, a feckless forty-something recalls his past relationships from the 90s onward, looking for his vanished hopes and dreams.
Mirai Moriyama
Makoto Satō
Sairi Ito
Kaori Kato
Masahiro Higashide
Kenta Sekiguchi
Sumire
Sū
Atsushi Shinohara
Toshihiko Nanase
Yuko Oshima
Megumi Ishida
Masato Hagiwara
Hideaki Miyoshi
Takehiro Hira
Keiichiro Sanai
Moemi Katayama
Ayaka Iwai
Masanobu Takashima
Takayuki Onda
We Couldn't Become Adults is a drama, romance film released in 2021 exploring themes of based on novel or book, nostalgia, love interest, retrospective, lost love, 1990s. Directed by Yoshihiro Mori, it stars Mirai Moriyama, Sairi Ito, Masahiro Higashide. Prodded by a friend request, a feckless forty-something recalls his past relationships from the 90s onward, looking for his vanished hopes and dreams.
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