Ossan's Love: Love or Dead

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Romance Drama Comedy
114 min     5.4     2019     Japan

Overview

The story takes place after the TV drama series Ossan's Love (2018). It's been a year since Haruta and Maki pledged their undying love. Haruta has now come back and receives a warm welcome from familiar faces, his boss Musashi Kurosawa and other colleagues. Justice Yamada, a recruit who has been recently assigned to this branch, welcomes him too. One day, completely out of the blue, the headquarter-based project team "Genius 7" shows up at the Second Sales Branch. Project leader Jin Mamiana orders the Sales team to support them in their big project. Maki, who had been transferred and works now at the head office, is among the project team members with Mamiana. Haruta and Maki grow apart, and Haruta teams up with Justice. Then Kurosawa gets involved in an accident and loses his memory, but the loss of his memory is selective and he has forgotten only Haruta. However, when Kurosawa sees Haruta, he falls in love again.. Hilarious and heartwarming, the final battle of Ossan's Love begins.

Reviews

kinrich30 wrote:
This movie came out in 2019 and was the sequel to the 2018 mini-series. It follows the same cast of characters, but this one has some action and adventure that series didn't have. It also saw the main character toned down a bit, which was kind of a relief from the over-the-top way the character acted through much of the series, although there are some elements of that here. All of the main cast returned, although some of them had much lesser roles than they did in the series. As for the ending, for many it was a happy and hopeful ending. Spoilers ahead: while the ending did have the main star and his boyfriend in a good place, they did part ways as the boyfriend was offered a great job overseas, so while it was happy, it was also left hanging without any real conclusion. There is a post-credit scene that explains this, so if you do watch make sure to watch until the end.

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