A star of the hit cop show “Aibou” (“Partners”) since its debut in 2000, Yutaka Mizutani has had a parallel career as a film director, beginning with his 2017 drama “Tap: The Last Show.”
His fourth feature is the four-part omnibus “Piccola Felicita,” a title which means “little pleasures” in Italian.
Scripted by Mizutani, who has come up with cute plot twists to tie together its segments, the film starts off formulaic with a TV-drama vibe, but in its second half it becomes a fever dream of passion and remorse, ending in a play-like coda soaked in irony and surrealism.
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