The Memory Eraser 記憶屋 あなたを忘れない (Movie)

The Memory Eraser
Also known as: Kiokuya: Anata wo Wasurenai / 記憶屋 あなたを忘れない
Genre: drama
Country: Japan
Director: Yuichiro Hirakawa
Writer: Kyoya Origami (novel), Keiko Kanome, Yuichiro Hirakawa
Production:
Release Date: January 17, 2020
Related Show: Based on novel “Kiokuya” by Kyoya Origami (first published October 24, 2015 by Kadokawa).
Cast:
- Ryosuke Yamada as Ryoichi Yoshimori
- Kyoko Yoshine as Maki Kawai
- Misako Renbutsu as Kyoko Sawada
- Kuranosuke Sasaki as Chiaki Takaharu
- Rika Izumi as Nanami
- Atsuko Sakurai as Asako Yoshimori
- Naho Toda as Mizuno
- Brother Tom as Sotoyama
- Tatsuomi Hamada as Sekiyaka
- Yuki Saso as Sassa
- Risa Sudo as Nozomi Kawai
- Tetta Sugimoto as Fukuoka
- Sumie Sasaki as Uchida
- Min Tanaka as Sugawara
- Kurumi Inagaki as Maki Kawai (young)
Synopsis:
Ryoichi Yoshimori (Ryosuke Yamada) is a university students. His girlfriend Kyoko Sawada (Misako Renbutsu) is older than him, but he enjoys his time with her. After Ryoichi Yoshimor proposes to his girlfriend, she suddenly disappears one day. Several days later, he finally sees her again. Kyoko Sawada does not have any memory of him. Ryoichi Yoshimori is stunned, but he suspects her memory loss is related to the Kiokuya rumor.
A person named Kiokuya is reputed to erase the memories of people. He talks to Chiaki Takaharu (Kuranosuke Sasaki), who is a lawyer and attended the same university, about his situation. Ryoichi Yoshimori searches for the cause of Kyoko Sawada’s memory loss and gets help from childhood friend Maki Kawai (Kyoko Yoshine) and Chiaki Takaharu’s assistant.