Impossible to Imagine

The story of a traditional Kyoto woman who runs a failing kimono business and the entrepreneurial, biracial, business consultant who comes to help keep it solvent. Along the way they fall in love, but his need for change clashes with her desire for the world to stay the same. In the end, can they change enough for each other?

Cast

Yukiko Ito

as Ami Shimizu

William Yagi Lewis

as Hayato Arai

Kazuya Moriyama

as Kazuya Shimizu

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