Josee, the Tiger and the Fish

Josee to Tora to Sakana-tachi · ジョゼと虎と魚たち

DramaRomance2020BonesRating 8,413+HD

Tsuneo spends his nights hauling part time shifts, saving every yen for a diving scholarship abroad. Diving is the one thing that makes sense to him. Then a girl in a wheelchair rolls into his life and immediately starts bossing him around. Her name is Kumiko, but she insists on Josee, borrowed from a Françoise Sagan novel she has read too many times. Her grandmother offers him money to look after her, and he takes it, mostly for the cash. Big mistake. Josee snaps at him, mocks him, orders him around like a servant. He lasts a few weeks and decides he is done. Then he finds out what her days actually look like. She has spent years reading and drawing because the real world was never an option. She wants out. She wants to see the ocean, the crowds, the ordinary mess of life most people ignore. So he stays. They start going places together, and something shifts. He starts caring about his own life again. She starts stepping past the door she thought was locked forever. Friends first. Then the stares from strangers start to matter less and less, and whatever is growing between them gets harder to name. Two people who were stuck in place, pulling each other forward. But what happens when one of them finally reaches where they were always headed?

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Rating8,4★★★★★ 34k

Age13+years

Length98minutes

Year2020Finished

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