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Hokuto's dream is to travel around the world as a professional cameraman. One day, he finds that his hospitalized girlfriend's doctor is his old classmate from high school. The doctor, Shinichiro, and Hokuto used to be very close friends, whom all shared a common love for photography. However, an accident broke their friendship apart, leaving them out of contact until now. Edit Translation

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  • Country: Japan
  • Type: Movie
  • Release Date: Aug 2, 2008
  • Duration: 1 hr. 22 min.
  • Score: 6.9 (scored by 244 users)
  • Ranked: #9889
  • Popularity: #10029
  • Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

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mikimika101
1 people found this review helpful
Jul 21, 2021
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Overall 5.0
Story 5.0
Acting/Cast 7.0
Music 5.0
Rewatch Value 2.0
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Typical Japanese BL of it's Time

Asymmetry is definitely a Japanese BL of the 2000s; as in it doesn't have a happy ending.

While it does a great job of portraying a realistic gay love story from it's time, I found it quite boring. If you like slice of life dramas and enjoy the realism then it might be a nice movie to watch, but for me it was boring. While realistic, there was no real hook to keep watching the movie. The love story was very unoriginal and even the characters were quite boring. It was quite obvious that the movie was going to end the way that it did from the beginning.

I guess if you're looking for an actual love story in a BL, then this is not the movie for you. If you are looking for a very realistic, slice of life, unrequited love story then maybe this might be for you.

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ariel alba
1 people found this review helpful
Jul 9, 2024
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Overall 10
Story 10
Acting/Cast 10
Music 10
Rewatch Value 10
After having played Toyama Kintaro and Sadaharu Inui in 'The Prince of Tennis', the film directed by Abe Yuichi in 2006, Wada Toyama and Hirofumi Araki gave life to Amamiya Hokuto and Tatsumi Shinichirou, in that order, in the Japanese romantic drama 'Asymmetry', made in 2008 by debut filmmaker Sato Tetsuya.
With a script by Erika Seki, a prolific writer of films and television series, the feature film tells how the relationship between Hokuto, a generous and kind-hearted young man who dreams of traveling the world as a professional cameraman, and Shinichiro, the doctor of his hospitalized girlfriend, an old high school classmate, also a lover of photography and with whom he became estranged after an accident that caused the friendship between the two to be broken.
Meeting his old friend again will awaken dormant passions in both of them.
The audience is faced with a very sad film, but uplifting in its own way. Hokuto is worried about the pain of Tatsumi, who clearly loves his friend, but Hokuto can't do anything about it.

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  • Movie: Asymmetry
  • Country: Japan
  • Release Date: Aug 2, 2008
  • Duration: 1 hr. 22 min.
  • Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

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  • Score: 6.9 (scored by 244 users)
  • Ranked: #9889
  • Popularity: #10029
  • Watchers: 804

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