Credited cast: | |||
Aoi Miyazaki | ... | Yu - young | |
Hidetoshi Nishijima | ... | Yosuke | |
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Hiromi Nagasaku | ... | Yu |
Eita | ... | Yosuke - young | |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Ryô Kase | |||
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Maho Nonami | ||
Nao Ohmori | ... | (as Nao Ômori) | |
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Sayuri Oyamada | ... | Yu's elder sister |
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Isao Yoshida | ... | Producer |
A high school student named Yu has a crush on one of her classmates, Yosuke. The boy spends most of his time sitting outside and playing his guitar, and Yu sits nearby and listens. One day, however, a terrible tragedy occurs, and the two do not see each other again for many years. Written by Patrick Lin
I felt Ishikawa's previous film, Tokyo.Sora, set out to make boring an accomplishment so I wasn't interested in seeing this until I discovered Hiromi Nagasaku in "Don't Laugh at My Romance" and "Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers!". She's a very versatile actress who elevates every film she's in and brings the necessary talent to make this low-key character study work. The script and story here aren't much, typical melodrama, but Nagasaku, and her younger self counterpart played by Aoi Miyazaki, are truly engaging. I could literally see their thought and emotional processes. If you are going to leave the camera on an actor for minutes at a time without any dialog, you better have good actors. The director's signature long, pale, landscapey photography compliments well here.