2 weeks Ago By Mark Schilling
Akiko Ohku is best known for directing comedies about lonely single women on the lookout for love, including her 2017 breakout hit, “ Tremble All You Want .” Mayu Matsuoka starred as a nerdy office worker obsessed with ammonite fossils and a teenage crush she never got over. But as Ohku’s latest, “She Taught Me Serendipity,” shows, her films are not purely rom-coms.
When the stories turn serious, their protagonists’ pain becomes all too real. “She Taught Me Serendipity” is the director’s first to center on a guy — a quirky, immature college student. But the two women who enter his small world both have strong personalities; he is a weak reed by comparison.
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