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Japan Academy Best Actress winner and Japan's 88th Academy Awards entry, remade in China as Yolo (2024).", "snippet": "100 Yen Love (百円の恋, Hyakuen no koi) is a 2014 Japanese boxing drama directed by Masaharu Take, written by Shin Adachi, starring Sakura Ando as 32-year-old slacker Ichiko; Japan Academy Best Actress winner and Japan's 88th Academy Awards entry, remade in China as Yolo (2024).", "node": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.drama-biographical.drama-films-2010-to-2014.psychological-and-social-drama-films", "markdown": "# 100 Yen Love (百円の恋)\n\n**100 Yen Love** (百円の恋, *Hyakuen no koi*) is a 2014 Japanese comedy-drama directed by Masaharu Take and written by Shin Adachi, starring Sakura Ando as a 32-year-old slacker who rebuilds her life through boxing.[1](https://jfdb.jp/title/5496) Produced by Toei Video and distributed by Spotted Productions, it opened in Japan on December 20, 2014, won the Japanese Cinema Splash Best Picture Award at the 27th Tokyo International Film Festival, and was selected as Japan's entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards.[2](https://eiga.com/movie/80512/) • [3](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4080598/) In 2024 it was remade in China as *Yolo*, starring the comedian Jia Ling.[4](https://assets.minkabu.jp/news/article_media_content/urn%3Anewsml%3Atdnet.info%3A20240213534699/140120240213534699.pdf)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Original title | 百円の恋 (*Hyakuen no koi*); English title 100 Yen Love[1](https://jfdb.jp/title/5496) |\n| Release | December 20, 2014 (Japan); world premiere October 25, 2014 at the Tokyo International Film Festival[2](https://eiga.com/movie/80512/) • [5](https://asianwiki.com/index.php?title=100_Yen_Love) |\n| Runtime and rating | 113 minutes, rated R15+ in Japan[2](https://eiga.com/movie/80512/) |\n| Key personnel | Director Masaharu Take; screenplay Shin Adachi; music Shogo Kaida; cinematography Hiromitsu Nishimura[1](https://jfdb.jp/title/5496) |\n| Lead cast | Sakura Ando as Ichiko; Hirofumi Arai as the boxer Kano[1](https://jfdb.jp/title/5496) |\n| Major honors | Japan Academy Prizes for Best Actress and Best Screenplay (2016); Japan's entry for the 88th Academy Awards' Best Foreign Language Film[6](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4080598/awards/) • [3](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4080598/) |\n| Chinese remake | *Yolo* (热辣滚烫), released February 10, 2024, starring Jia Ling; over 23.7 billion yen at the Chinese box office in its first three days[4](https://assets.minkabu.jp/news/article_media_content/urn%3Anewsml%3Atdnet.info%3A20240213534699/140120240213534699.pdf) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Plot\n\nIchiko Saito (Sakura Ando) is 32, unemployed, and living at her parents' home above the family bento stand, spending her days playing video games with her nephew.[7](https://chlotrudis.org/review/100-2/) • [8](https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2016/films/100-yen-love) When her divorced younger sister Fumiko moves back with her child, the two clash, and Ichiko leaves home to live alone.[5](https://asianwiki.com/index.php?title=100_Yen_Love) She takes a night-shift job at a 100-yen shop, Japan's equivalent of a dime store, where the staff include a harassing co-worker.[8](https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2016/films/100-yen-love) • [7](https://chlotrudis.org/review/100-2/)\n\nOn her way home she passes a boxing gym where the taciturn middle-aged boxer Kano (Hirofumi Arai) trains, and the two begin a relationship.[2](https://eiga.com/movie/80512/) The happiness does not last, and after a violent encounter with a co-worker Ichiko impulsively takes up boxing herself.[2](https://eiga.com/movie/80512/) • [9](https://www.jff.ie/assets/files/JFF_2016_Prog_LR.pdf) The film follows her training toward a match that the Japanese publicity materials frame as her \"life's return match.\"[10](https://cinema-factory.net/contents/1046_100yen-koi/intro.html)\n\n## Origin and production\n\nThe screenplay by Shin Adachi won the first grand prix of the Matsuda Yusaku Award, a screenwriting prize created in 2012 at the Shunan \"Kizuna\" Film Festival in Yamaguchi Prefecture, the birthplace of the actor Yusaku Matsuda; it was chosen from 151 submissions by a jury including the actress and photographer Miyuki Matsuda, the film producer Mitsuru Kurosawa, and the screenwriter Shoichi Maruyama.[2](https://eiga.com/movie/80512/) • [10](https://cinema-factory.net/contents/1046_100yen-koi/intro.html) Masaharu Take, whose earlier credits included *In the Hero* (2013), directed; Sakura Ando was chosen for the lead through an audition.[2](https://eiga.com/movie/80512/)\n\nAndo's boxing training was supervised by Shinichiro Matsuura, who also appears in the film as trainer Kobayashi. She has described the director's instruction as simply \"be strong, above all,\" without specific technical targets, and noted that her own preferred out-boxing style was the opposite of Ichiko's relentless, pressure-fighting character.[11](https://www.neol.jp/culture/21896/?page=2%2F) The theme song is CreepHyp's \"Hyakuhachi-en no Koi\" (\"108-Yen Love\").[10](https://cinema-factory.net/contents/1046_100yen-koi/intro.html)\n\n## Reception and awards\n\nThe film premiered in the Japanese Cinema Splash section of the 27th Tokyo International Film Festival in October 2014 and won that section's Best Picture Award.[5](https://asianwiki.com/index.php?title=100_Yen_Love) • [2](https://eiga.com/movie/80512/) It later received the NETPAC Award at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival and the Cut Above Award at Japan Cuts.[12](https://www.psfilmfest.org/2016-ps-film-festival/films/100-yen-love)\n\nAt the 39th Japan Academy Prizes (2016) it won the Best Actress award for Sakura Ando and the Best Screenplay award for Shin Adachi, and was nominated for Best Film, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actor (Hirofumi Arai).[6](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4080598/awards/) • [2](https://eiga.com/movie/80512/) Ando also won the Kinema Junpo and Blue Ribbon awards for Best Actress, the latter shared with her work in *0.5 mm*.[6](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4080598/awards/) Toei's 2024 disclosure put the film's cumulative total at 21 film awards in Japan and abroad, and noted that it had an unusually long theatrical run.[4](https://assets.minkabu.jp/news/article_media_content/urn%3Anewsml%3Atdnet.info%3A20240213534699/140120240213534699.pdf)\n\nCritics singled out Ando's performance. Peter Debruge of *Variety* wrote that the film \"presents a series of disappointments in a young woman's life that cumulatively convince her to take control of her own destiny,\" and compared Ando to [Toshiro Mifune](https://www.edgepedia.org/toshiro-mifune) in the Film Movement press kit.[13](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/100_yen_love) • [14](https://filmmovement.com/userFiles/uploads/films/100-yen-love/100YenLove_presskit.pdf) The International Film Festival Rotterdam program described it as Take's \"noir-flavoured breakthrough film,\" offering \"a grungy view of Tokyo's sub-proletariat\" alongside \"an energising picture of a woman who manages to reinvent herself.\"[8](https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2016/films/100-yen-love) On Rotten Tomatoes the film holds a 100% Tomatometer from 10 reviews and a 76% audience score.[13](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/100_yen_love) IMDb lists a worldwide gross of $117,642.[3](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4080598/)\n\n## The Academy Awards submission and the Chinese remake\n\nThe film was selected as Japan's entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards but was not nominated.[3](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4080598/)\n\nToei and Toei Video licensed a Chinese remake after an offer from a Chinese production side, with Adachi, Take, and producer Gen Sato supervising the development.[4](https://assets.minkabu.jp/news/article_media_content/urn%3Anewsml%3Atdnet.info%3A20240213534699/140120240213534699.pdf) The remake, *Yolo* (热辣滚烫), directed by and starring the comedian Jia Ling, opened on February 10, 2024, at the start of the [Chinese New Year](https://www.edgepedia.org/chinese-new-year) holiday, and earned over 23.7 billion yen in its first three days.[4](https://assets.minkabu.jp/news/article_media_content/urn%3Anewsml%3Atdnet.info%3A20240213534699/140120240213534699.pdf) The remake's success brought renewed attention to the original; audience discussion on Rotten Tomatoes in 2025 compared the two films' treatment of Ichiko's dependence on the boxer.[13](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/100_yen_love)\n\n## Note on running time\n\nMost Japanese and festival sources list the running time as 113 minutes,[2](https://eiga.com/movie/80512/) • [8](https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2016/films/100-yen-love) while the Palm Springs International Film Festival and Toei Video's DVD listing give 114 minutes.[12](https://www.psfilmfest.org/2016-ps-film-festival/films/100-yen-love) • [15](https://www.toei-video.co.jp/pdf/toei-sokata20180404.pdf) Rotten Tomatoes rounds it to 1h 53m.[13](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/100_yen_love)\n\n## References\n\n1. [百円の恋 (100 Yen Love), Japanese Film Database (JFDB)](https://jfdb.jp/title/5496)\n2. [百円の恋：作品情報・キャスト・あらすじ・動画, 映画.com](https://eiga.com/movie/80512/)\n3. [100 Yen Love (2014), IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4080598/)\n4. [東映 2024年2月14日開示資料：『百円の恋』中国リメイク版公開について](https://assets.minkabu.jp/news/article_media_content/urn%3Anewsml%3Atdnet.info%3A20240213534699/140120240213534699.pdf)\n5. [100 Yen Love, AsianWiki](https://asianwiki.com/index.php?title=100_Yen_Love)\n6. [100 Yen Love (2014) - Awards, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4080598/awards/)\n7. [100 Yen Love review, Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film](https://chlotrudis.org/review/100-2/)\n8. [100 Yen Love, International Film Festival Rotterdam](https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2016/films/100-yen-love)\n9. [100 Yen Love, Japanese Film Festival (Ireland) 2016 program](https://www.jff.ie/assets/files/JFF_2016_Prog_LR.pdf)\n10. [『百円の恋』作品紹介, Cinema Factory](https://cinema-factory.net/contents/1046_100yen-koi/intro.html)\n11. [映画『百円の恋』安藤サクラ × 新井浩文 対談, neol.jp](https://www.neol.jp/culture/21896/?page=2%2F)\n12. [100 Yen Love, Palm Springs International Film Festival 2016](https://www.psfilmfest.org/2016-ps-film-festival/films/100-yen-love)\n13. [100 Yen Love, Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/100_yen_love)\n14. [100 Yen Love press kit, Film Movement](https://filmmovement.com/userFiles/uploads/films/100-yen-love/100YenLove_presskit.pdf)\n15. 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