Love never was and never will be logical. Your 20-year-old daughter rolls her eyes at May-December romances in the movies ¡ª until she gets engaged to a 50-year-old guy. And you will declaim loud and long against her choice, until you start dating a 20-year-old yourself. I am speaking in a general way, of course. I am certain that all of you reading this only fall in love with age-appropriate partners.
Still, certain pairings in films seem illogical and rub me the wrong way. One belongs to ¡°Otoko no Issho (A Man¡¯s Life),¡± the latest in director Ryuichi Hiroki¡¯s long line of romantic dramas.
Based on Keiko Nishi¡¯s popular comic of the same title, the film pairs 27-year-old Nana Eikura, playing a stressed-out career woman on an extended break following her beloved grandmother¡¯s death, with 52-year-old Etsushi Toyokawa as the eccentric university professor the heroine ends up sharing grandma¡¯s house with.
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