Like Someone in Love
—Abbas Kiarostami

“When Abbas Kiarostami was in Tokyo long ago, like 17 or 18 years ago. He was driving through the business area late at night and he saw this young girl dressed as a bride on the sidewalk and this image was so powerful that it remained with him when he went back to Iran and then through his travels when he went back to Japan. he would go back to Japan almost every other year for the promotion of his different films and different events. And He realized that he was still looking for the same girl, the same image that he had found so striking at the time and he never saw this image again because the girl did not have this uniform anymore but the reality was still there under different costume. Eventually this experience turned into this particular movie.”