Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (2003)

Japan

Drama, Romance

Asmik Ace Entertainment, IMJ Entertainment, M.S.C., Kansai Television, Hakuhodo

Satoshi Tsumabuki, Chizuru Ikewaki, Juri Ueno, Noriko Eguchi, Hirofumi Arai, Itsuji Itao

Isshin Inudo

Aya Watanabe

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love, based on short story, disability, young love, cerebral palsy

Tsuneo is a university student working part-time in a mah-jong parlour. Lately the customers have been talking about an old lady who pushes a baby carriage through the streets. They say she is carrying something for a crime syndicate, and they wonder what it is she has in the carriage Money? Drugs? One day, the owner of the mah-jong parlour sends Tsuneo out to walk his dog. A baby carriage comes rolling down a hill and crashes into a guard rail. The old lady asks him to look into the carriage, where he finds a young woman clutching a knife. This is how Tsuneo first meets the girl who calls herself Josee.

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