Come On, Irene

Iwao Shishido has found a wife. After paying three million yen for a bridal tour to the Philippines, he comes home with Irene, who is promptly confronted by Tsuru—Iwao’s freshly widowed mother, who’s infuriated her loser son has married a woman she’s never met.

The film centers on Iwao Shishido, who at age forty suddenly leaves his rural village, but returns with a foreign bride during his father’s funeral.

Director: Keisuke Yoshida
Writers: Hideki Arai (manga), Keisuke Yoshida (Adaptation)
Stars: Seiji Fukushi, Yûsuke Iseya, Aoba Kawai