You've Got A Friend

You've Got A Friend (2022) is a Japanese drama from director Ryuichi Hiroki you can watch online on iFILM. Yoshio is a salaryman sharing an apartment with his mother and spending his evenings with Miho, a professional dominatrix. To the outside world, he barely registers.

What Hiroki is really tracing is absence — the shape of what Yoshio cannot say or reach for in ordinary life. Behind his visits to Miho is an older fixation: the legendary queen Yukiko, a woman he has never managed to leave behind. Low-key and formally careful, the film belongs to the tradition of Japanese character studies that treat loneliness as something worth watching slowly. Stream You've Got A Friend online on iFILM.