Cast Me If You Can

This highly entertaining Japanese romcom tells the story of Hiroshi (Tôru Masuoka), a somewhat successful television actor who is about to leave his life as a character actor behind for the starring role in a Woody Allen-type movie. A paparazzi photographs him handing flowers that a woman left behind in a shop and he suddenly finds himself being portrayed in the scandal sheets as the lover of the woman, who happens to be the wife of a prime minister. He also finds himself booted from the cast of the big film. So he comes up with a plan – or a series of plans – to get his reputation, and his job, back. Along the way he meets a perky young actress named Aya (Hiromi Nagasaku) who helps him realize that there’s more to life than pretending to be someone else.