Last Friends (2008)

It tackles issues that afflict the current generation. Michiru’s mother has brought a man back to their home, and she is bullied at her workplace, where she works as a beauty parlour assistant. She starts cohabiting with her boyfriend, a good young man who works at the Child Welfare Division and is the only person who can give her emotional support but she ends up the victim of domestic violence and becomes fearful of love. The boyishly charming Ruka was a classmate of Michiru’s in junior high school. Since graduating high school, she has performed brilliantly as a motocross racer and aims to win the national championship. However, as the story progresses, a deep worry that she can neither confide in her parents nor any of her close friends becomes evident. Takeru is a hair and makeup artist acquainted with Ruka. He is a good confidant to women due to his kindness and perceptiveness. He finds himself attracted to Ruka but has a phobia of sex due to a past trauma. The three of them become housemates and start to gain the capacity to be positive about life through their associations with others.