is a Osamu Suzuki's Novel. And 2008 Japanese film directed by

Tsutomu Hanabusa is a Japanese film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role ...

. The film showed at the 2009 11th Udine Far East Film International Premiere.

Plot

An overweight restaurant owner Takuro (

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) while popular with people for his delicious dinners, is unlucky in love because of his looks, dress sense and terrible habits. Takuro longs for his part-time waitress Hiroko who fell for him because of his warm-hearted nature, but rejects him because she believes he only cares about her looks. A distraught Takuro is given the opportunity to try out a new invention, the Handsome Suit, which will make him good-looking, tall and deep-voiced. He puts it on and transforms himself into "Annin Hikariyama" and quickly becomes a supermodel. He meets "Raika", who a gorgeous, beautiful and prestigious model. She becomes attracted to him as she works and aggressively seduces him. He delights in it, indulges in kissing Laika, and almost falls in love with her. Noticing how differently he’s treated, Takuro has to learn to overcome how looks matter both to himself and to society in general, particularly when he meets the homely but sweet Motoe. He is faced with a choice.

Cast

as Takuro Ohki * Shosuke Tanihara as Kyonin Mitsuyama *

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as Hiroko Hoshino *

Miyuki Oshima Miyuki is a feminine Japanese given name. Possible writings Miyuki can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *, "beautiful fortune" or "beautiful happiness" *, "deep snow" *, "beautiful snow" *, "beautiful reason for history" ...

as Hone Hashino *

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as Shinsuke Hazama *

Kiyoshi Nakajo Kiyoshi, (きよし or キヨシ), is a Japanese given name, also spelled Kyoshi. Possible meanings *'' Kyōshi'', a form of Japanese poetry *Kyōshi, a Japanese honorific Possible writings *清, "cleanse" *淳, "pure" *潔, "undefiled" *清志, ...

as Shiraki *

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as Raika."The Handsome Suit" Variety https://variety.com/2008/film/reviews/the-handsome-suit-1200471264/

References

2008 films 2000s Japanese-language films Films directed by Tsutomu Hanabusa 2000s Japanese films {{2000s-Japan-film-stub