Master filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami's mysteriously beautiful romantic drama, filmed entirely in Japan.. LIKE SOMONE IN LOVE revolves around the brief encounter between an elderly professor (the wonderful 81-year-old stage actor Tadashi Okuno, here playing his first leading role in a film) and a sociology student (Rin Takanashi) who moonlights as a high-end escort. Dispatched to the old man by her boss-one of the professor's former students-the young woman finds her latest client less interested in sex than in cooking her soup, talking, and playing old Ella Fitzgerald records (like the one that gives the film its allusive title). Eventually, night gives way to day and a tense standoff with the student's insanely jealous boyfriend (Ryō Kase); but as usual in Kiarostami, nothing is quite as it appears on the surface. Are these characters-who conjure in one another the specters of regret and roads not taken-meeting by chance, or is it fate? Is this love, or merely something like it?. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Nominated for Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Ryo Kase), and Best Cinematographer at the Asian Film Awards.. "A wonderful celebration of what it's like to be in love." - Joseph Aberl, Film Inquiry. "I was enraptured by Like Someone in Love, taken with a visual intelligence and thoughtfulness we seldom see onscreen." - Sean Burns, Philadelphia Weekly