...and I really liked it. The photography is beautiful and so is the whole symbology in this movie, I understand now why Hirokazu Kore-eda praises the director of this movie, it was just beautiful in every aspect. It's the first movie I've watched by Shinji Somai I've watched but I guess I'll have to start watching more of his work, too bad he left us almost 25 years ago, he was only 53 :(
...and I really liked the movie. I know there is an anime version of it too, which I haven't watched yet but will do as soon as I can. And somehow I am kind of glad I haven't watched the anime yet so I could watch this movie without any expectations or knowing the plot before diving in.
I really liked the actors in this movie, I think all of them make a great fit for their characters and I specially loved Suzu Hirose's work here, I liked her kind of "crazy" girl role here who doesn't follow rules and even more so as the story developes making her behaviour make a lot of sense by the end of the movie.
I guess most people here probably know this movie already, or at least the anime, and I don't know why I have had it sitting for so long in my backlog but I'm really glad I finally gave it a chance even when it made me share some tears. And it having music as a central part of the plot is also a big plus for me. I can only recommend it if you haven't watched it yet.
you can also hear her singing in the song in that scene in the current live stream about the game
it's been a while since this video was posted here (12 years ago) so I feel like it's a good time to share this great song here again
...and I loved it. This movie made me share a couple of tears for reasons I wasn't expecting when I started it. It's like a very special and out of the ordinary movie but at the same time one that represents our struggles as ordinary people so well... Sumida ganbare!!
