PEAKFLIX

Love is Still Necessary

Original title: 愛なんていらねえよ、夏

Year

2002

Rating

★ 8.0/10

Runtime

54 min

Seasons

1

Genres

Drama

Rage, a pimp who only loves money and himself, is sent to jail for 6 months. While he is in the jail, Rage’s partner, Reiji, dies in a traffic accident. Released from prison, Rage finds himself having lost everything but a debt of 6 million dollars. One day, Rage is visited by a lawyer that mistakes him for Reiji. According to the lawyer, Reiji’s father died and left him a large inheritance. Reiji’s only other living relative is his blind sister. Rage smells money and hatches a plan to pretend to be Reiji and steal his money.

Cast: Ryoko Hirosue, Atsuro Watabe, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Kazuma Suzuki, Ryoko Sakaguchi, Leo Morimoto