Rules of Living

Dir: Greg Dale, Japan, 2024, Comedy/Drama.
Kaho Minami, Greg Dale, Mayuko Kawakita, Jeffrey Rowe.
In Japanese and English with subtitles in both languages.
Winner Best Feature Film Comedy, Sedona International Film Festival.
Canadian Theatrical Premiere.
“The writer-director (and star), Greg Dale, is a Japan-based New Yorker… The producer, Jeffrey Rowe, is a filmmaker and actor based between Japan and Canada [He grew up in Montague P.E.I.]… Rules of Living stars the always great Kaho Minami as Mikuko Abe, a career woman who’s living alone after her divorce and her mother’s move into hospice care. She’s stuck in a job she doesn’t love and a relationship with an elite businessman that gives her no real pleasure; and she can’t get her irresponsible daughter to listen to her. When Vincent, an American who has met said daughter overseas, shows up on her doorstep and asks to stay ‘just for 3 months,’ she’d like nothing to do with him. But he has money for rent, so Mikuko reluctantly agrees to let him stay in a spare room. After weeks of often hilarious miscommunications, the oddball roommates begin to start talking about themselves. As they navigate cultural differences and discuss societal expectations, each begins to make discoveries that eventually help them find a new sense of purpose.” – Tokyo Filmgoer

Genre: Comedy

Runtime: 109 min

Rating: PG