The Memory Eraser (2020)

Profile

• Movie: The Memory Eraser (English title)
• Romaji: Kiokuya: Anata wo Wasurenai

• Japanese: 記憶屋 あなたを忘れない
• Director: Yuichiro Hirakawa
• Writer: Kyoya Origami (novel), Keiko Kanome, Yuichiro Hirakawa
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• Cinematographer:
• Release Date: January 17, 2020
• Runtime:
• Distributor: Shochiku
• Language: Japanese
• Country: Japan

Synopsis

Ryoichi Yoshimori (Ryosuke Yamada) is a university students. His girlfriend Kyoko Sawada (Misako Renbutsu) is older than him, but he enjoys his time with her. After Ryoichi Yoshimor proposes to his girlfriend, she suddenly disappears one day. Several days later, he finally sees her again. Kyoko Sawada does not have any memory of him. Ryoichi Yoshimori is stunned, but he suspects her memory loss is related to the Kiokuya rumor. A person named Kiokuya is reputed to erase the memories of people. He talks to Chiaki Takaharu (Kuranosuke Sasaki), who is a lawyer and attended the same university, about his situation. Ryoichi Yoshimori searches for the cause of Kyoko Sawada’s memory loss and gets help from childhood friend Maki Kawai (Kyoko Yoshine) and Chiaki Takaharu’s assistant.