Fashion model and actress Karina (26) is starring in a new movie called "Love Come," directed by Yuichiro Hirakawa. Karina has not played the lead role in a film since "Shinkokyuu no Hitsuyou" in 2004.
The movie's title is an abbreviation of the phrase "love comedy" and should not be confused with the manga series "Love Com" (an abbreviation of "Lovely Complex"). Set in the lower parts of Tokyo, "Love Come" has Karina playing the manager of a flower arrangement shop, who has not had a boyfriend in nearly two years. Despite her feminine beauty, she has a masculine personality. She is reunited with an awkward anime screenwriter (Kei Tanaka) 17 years after they last met.
The story is adapted from the novel of the same name by authors Atsushi Matsuhisa and Wataru Tanaka, who together also wrote "Tengoku no Honya." That book was turned into a movie in 2004 with the English title "Heaven's Bookstore."
Filming for "Love Come" started on June 13 and finished earlier this month. The movie will be released in theaters on September 25.
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