On the flight back to Singapore, they were screening Jun Ichikawa's movie Tokyo Marigold, starring actress Rena Tanaka and based on the novel Ichinen no Nochi by author Mariko Hayashi. I liked the movie so much I watched it 2.5 times, till they shut down the inflight screening. The movie is about loneliness, and how a girl met a salaryman whose girlfriend is currently studying in America for a year, and requested to be with him for that one year the girlfriend is away. Can't locate a decent movie review for it to post here, but I'm going to hunt for an English translation of the original novel.

Movies like this make me wish I learnt Japanese.