A woman hires actors and strangers to pretend to be her friends and family at her wedding.
Social & External
The people behind it
Haru Kuroki
Nanami Minagawa
Go Ayano
Yukimasu Amuro
Cocco
Mashiro Satonaka
Hideko Hara
Kayako
Go Jibiki
Tetsuya
Soko Wada
Yuto Takashima
Tomoko Mariya
Harumi Minagawa
Yugo Saso
Katsu
Nana Natsume
Saeko
Akio Kaneda
Hironori
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