is a 2015 Japanese

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directed by Junichi Ishikawa. It was released on April 1, 2015.

Plot

In one of the subplots in this film, Ayumi Nitta (

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) suffers from anthropophobia (extreme shyness and fear of people). She works as a janitor at a hospital. She had a one-night stand with Wataru Makino (

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) who is a sex addict and a womanizer getting his way with beautiful women by lying about being a very good surgeon and many other things. Ayumi later realizes that she is pregnant because of that one night stand. When she tells Wataru that she is pregnant, Wataru believes she is a making a bad April Fools joke. Wataru Makino then takes flight attendant Reiko ( Nanao) out to an Italian restaurant. He doesn't know that Ayumi Nitta is going to the same restaurant, after he mentioned it when she called him, to confront him to take responsibility for getting her pregnant which escalated to a major incident. Other subplots involve a student ( Seishuu Uragami) who thinks he is an alien after reading messages he received via internet, an old lady (

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) who is being suspected by a police detective (

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) of being a con offering some kind of shaman service, a middle aged couple ( Kotaro Satomi,

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) pretending to be Japanese royalties to fulfill the dying wife's wish, a 'kidnapped' school student (

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) and her family, and two friends (

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, Masato Yano) who stay together one being a homosexual. All the things that happened in these subplots occurred on April 1 which could be or is mistaken to be April fools prank.

Cast

as Ayumi Nitta *

as Makino * Yūsuke Santamaria as a receptionist * Yukiyoshi Ozawa as a chef *

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as a mother *

as a detective Ono * Eiko Koike as a punk woman * Kotaro Satomi as Sakurakōji Yūmaro *

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as a husband

Reception

By April 5, the film had earned at the Japanese box office.

Plot

Cast

Reception

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