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Linking Love

2017-10-28 · 116 min · ★ 2.7

Comedy · Romance

Struggling high schooler Miyui Mashio is transported back to 1991, where she attends school with her quarreling parents—realizing she must form an idol group with her mother to help her parents fall in love, or risk never being born.

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Directors
Shusuke Kaneko
Production companies
CineMove
Countries
Japan
Status
Released

Top Cast

Yuka TanoYuka TanoMiyu Mashio
Anna IshibashiAnna IshibashiYumiko Mashio
Jin ShirasuJin ShirasuMoteki Kenichiro
Mayu Hasegawa
Asuka HinoiAsuka Hinoi
Masaya KikawadaMasaya Kikawada
Ryo KatoRyo KatoUrano Shuichi
Takayuki KinoshitaTakayuki Kinoshita
Yu MashimaYu Mashima
Erina Masuda
Anri Mihama
Akiyoshi NakaoAkiyoshi NakaoKaga Shuzo
Masahiko NishimuraMasahiko Nishimura
Motoki OchiaiMotoki OchiaiUshio Takafumi
Koji OhkuraKoji Ohkura

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