My Rainy Days

My Rainy Days (天使の恋, 2009) is Yuri Kanchiku's Japanese melodrama, available to watch online on iFILM. Seventeen-year-old Rio (Nozomi Sasaki) fills the hole in her life with money, selling dates and letting no one near.

Her rule is simple: if a person can't be used, they don't matter to her. Behind that coldness sits a trauma she never speaks about. Everything tilts when she meets Kouki, a university lecturer, and for the first time she wants to be seen rather than paid.

Adapted from a hit Japanese cell-phone novel, the film refuses to go easy on its heroine — this is bittersweet melodrama with no fairy-tale cushion. Nozomi Sasaki holds nearly every frame. Stream My Rainy Days (2009) online on iFILM.