Japanese Story is a 2003 Australian film directed by Sue Brooks.
Sandy Edwards (played by Toni Collette) is a director in a company designing geological software in Perth, Western Australia. Her business partner manipulates her into acting as a guide for a Japanese businessmen visiting mines in the Pilbara desert in the hope that he will purchase her product. When Tachibana Hiromitsu (Gotaro Tsunashima) arrives, expecting her to carry his luggage and more intent on discovering himself in the wilderness than on buying computer software, Sandy is at first angered by his private but demanding nature. Hiromitsu, feeling insecure, speaks more frequently on his phone to friends in Japan than he does to the woman driving next to him, insists that she drive deeper into the desert. The terrain becomes too much for the pair's vehicle which becomes bogged down. After a series of increasing desperate attempts to release the vehicle, they are forced to spend the night stranded together. The next day Hiromitsu, conscious that his actions had placed them in danger, wakes early and builds a track they can drive out of before Sandy wakes. Now they are free, the ice breaks and a friendship starts between them that, in isolated surroundings uninterrupted by their lives, grows quickly and honestly.
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