The Liar and His Lover

The Liar and His Lover (2013) is a Japanese musical romance you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Norihiro Koizumi and starring Takeru Satoh and Sakurako Ohara. Aki is twenty-five — a secretive songwriter feeding hits to the idol group Crude Play under a producer alias while staying invisible to the public. Then he meets Riko, a sixteen-year-old high-school student whose raw voice stops him cold.

Riko has no idea the shy guy she is dating and the mysterious producer who scouts her are the same person. Aki falls for her without giving his real name. The deception compounds itself the closer they get. A gentle Japanese pop romance built on a deceptively simple question: what happens when the lie is also what brought two people together? Stream The Liar and His Lover (2013) online on iFILM.