Nao Okabe

Thirteen years before he won an Oscar® for Drive My Car, Ryūsuke Hamaguchi delivered this shattering Rohmerian drama as his university thesis film. An intricately knitted tale of love, friendship, and recrimination, Passion sees one of the great contemporary writer-directors emerge fully formed.

Dumped, demoted, and drunk, Sumire finds a cute guy hiding in a cardboard box outside her building--and decides to take him in as a human pet.

Kazuma returns from America after ten years, reuniting with Ren at work. Ren is distant, but their bond reignites, surfacing unanswered questions.