Sideways (2009 film)

Sideways (サイドウェイズ) is a 2009 comedy-drama film directed by Cellin Gluck that is a remake of the 2004 Academy Award–nominated film Sideways. Unlike its predecessor that was set in the Santa Barbara wine country, it is primarily set in the Napa Valley wine region.

Plot
Michio Saito is a middle-aged Japanese screenwriter with little success. He is a former foreign student who returns to California to attend the wedding of his best friend, Daisuke Uehara, to an Alli, an American. Uehara is a former actor who has lived in California since college and is now a restaurant manager. Before the wedding, the two men take one last bachelor trip to the Napa Valley wine country, where they meet a woman that Saito once tutored and admired, Mayuko Tanaka, and her barista friend, Mina Parker. Tanaka and Saito rekindle their acquaintance, and Parker and Uehara become romantically entangled.

Cast
The actors include:
 * Fumiyo Kohinata as Michio Saito
 * Katsuhisa Namase as Daisuke Uehara
 * Kyôka Suzuki as Mayuko Tanaka
 * Rinko Kikuchi as Mina Parker
 * Anna Easteden as Alli