Synopsis
Call Me Chihiro (ちひろさん, 2023) is a quiet Japanese drama by Rikiya Imaizumi, ready to watch online on iFILM. A former sex worker settles in a small seaside town and takes a job selling bento boxes from a roadside stand.
Chihiro hides nothing about her past. She smiles at customers and strikes up easy talk with anyone — a schoolgirl with no friends, a homeless old man, a boy nobody waits for at home. The lonely drift toward her. Yet she carries a loneliness of her own, quiet and uncomplaining, the kind that has trailed her since childhood. Kasumi Arimura plays the lead.
Imaizumi works without any showy heartbreak: long pauses, soft light, small acts of kindness in place of big plot turns. This Netflix film is adapted from Hiroyuki Yasuda's manga. It's for anyone who loves slow, warm Japanese cinema about the chance bonds between strangers. Stream Call Me Chihiro (2023) online on iFILM.
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