Be My Baby

Hitoshi Ohne directs this Japanese comedy which explores the intertwined love lives of nine twenty-somethings. Koji throws a small party at his house and invites his girlfriend Tomoko and her friend Kaori, his brother Naoki and his girlfriend Satomi, his three friends Yutu, Osamu and Takashi as well as the unknown Yuko. Although the boys are initially disappointed with the girls' effort to impress them and the mood of the party falls flat, the story follows the mixed fortunes of the group's connected love lives in the two weeks after the get-together.