Otoko no Isshō

Otoko no Isshō (Japanese: 娚の一生, lit. "A Man's Lifetime") is a slice of life romance josei manga series written and illustrated by Keiko Nishi. It was published by Shogakukan on Flowers magazine and in four volumes compiling the chapters.^[1] A live action romantic drama film adaptation was released on February 14, 2015. It's directed by Ryūichi Hiroki and written by Hiroshi Saitō. It stars Nana Eikura and Etsushi Toyokawa.^[2][3]

• Nana Eikura as Tsugumi Dozono^[2]
• Etsushi Toyokawa as Jun Kaieda^[2]
• Osamu Mukai as Toshio Nakagawa^[2]
• Sakura Andō as Saki Akimoto^[2]
• Tomoya Maeno as Satoshi Sonoda^[2]
• Motoki Ochiai as Takahiro Tomono^[2]
• Toshie Negishi as Kyoko^[2]
• Mari Hamada as Sayoko^[2]
• Yū Tokui as Tamio^[2]
• Hana Kino as Kayo Sakata^[2]
• Minami as a female receptionist^[2]
• Mayuko Iwasa as Harumi Tomioka^[2]
• Kentarō Sakaguchi as Nobuo^[2]

• 1 (March 10, 2009)^[4]
• 2 (October 10, 2009)^[5]
• 3 (March 10, 2010)^[6]
• 4 (September 24, 2012)^[7]

The soundtrack of the film is by Kōji Endō and the theme song is "Hold me, Hold you." by JUJU.^[2]

Volume 3 of the manga reached the 17th place on the weekly Oricon manga chart and, as of March 14, 2010, has sold 37,260 copies;^[8] volume 4 reached the 3rd place^[9] and, as of October 7, 2012, has sold 166,735 copies.^[10]

The manga was nominated for the third Manga Taishō in 2010, ranking 5th out of the 10 nominees with 48 points.^[11]

In a review of the film, Maggie Lee of Variety said that "foot fetishists will rejoice, but this is an otherwise wholesome, mellow May–September romance."^[12]

• Otoko no Isshō on Shogakukan (in Japanese)
• Official website of the film (in Japanese)
• Otoko no Isshō at IMDb