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Echoes of the Orient

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Rin Takahashi seeks escape from her rigid life at a manners company at a live house where a rock singer-Midori Sasaki's concert is taking place. There, she encounters Buliang Zhao, a Chinese painter who, despite meeting her for the first time, suddenly proposes marriage. Overwhelmed and intoxicated, Rin collapses, only to awaken in Midori and Buliang's shared house. From this curious encounter, the lives of the three gradually begin to change.

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Vadim Rizov Filmmaker Magazine Echoes’s distinguishing features include its adept widescreen compositions—an aspect ratio unusual for this pocket of slow cinema—and its equally non-standard, lowkey but consistent sense of humor and extreme awareness of the present moment. Nov 22, 2025 Full Review Read all reviews

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Liping Yang

Director

Mizuho Osu

Actor

Ninghao Zhang

Actor

Motoko Tamura

Actor

Liping Yang

Screenwriter

Amy Sun

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Synopsis Rin Takahashi seeks escape from her rigid life at a manners company at a live house where a rock singer-Midori Sasaki's concert is taking place. There, she encounters Buliang Zhao, a Chinese painter who, despite meeting her for the first time, suddenly proposes marriage. Overwhelmed and intoxicated, Rin collapses, only to awaken in Midori and Buliang's shared house. From this curious encounter, the lives of the three gradually begin to change.
Director
Liping Yang
Producer
Amy Sun, Souta Namise
Screenwriter
Liping Yang
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Japanese
Runtime
2h 37m