Impossible to Imagine

Impossible to Imagine

Can they change enough for each other?

2019 · 88 min · ★ 5.8 · Romance

The story of a traditional Kyoto woman who runs a failing kimono business and the entrepreneurial, biracial, business consultant who comes to help keep it solvent. Along the way they fall in love, but his need for change clashes with her desire for the world to stay the same. In the end, can they change enough for each other?

Directed by Felicity Tillack

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Yukiko Ito Ami Shimizu
William Yagi Lewis Hayato Arai
Kazuya Moriyama Kazuya Shimizu

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