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i recommend you watch the 2003 version and judge for yourself. I'll try not to spoil much about it here but yeah you can say that he tried to 'redeem' in the 2003 one but it wasn't really the try-to-be-a-good-person 'redeem' but more like he let his guilt eat him up through out the years. Personally i think the 2003 one gave a good closure to what was left opened in the 1993 one.

Loved this drama from beginning to end. Very well done. Everything about it screams ‘summer’ and ‘slice if life’ lol One of my favorite details is the bean sprouts, they’re like a metaphor of Shinji and Nagi’s relationship, which i think was very clever.

The cast was all amazing. Haru and Issei did a fantastic job, like you can clearly tell whenever their smiles were fake or honest. and for real tho, Issei’s crying in this drama really broke my heart several times, i just wanted to give him a hug.

I have no problem with the ending. But i’d love it if there’s a season 2.

it's certainly not for everyone but somehow it's my cup of tea, i enjoyed it from beginning to the very last minute. everything is so excellent. you have to pay attention and link everything together to figure out what the main character is thinking and feeling, such clever storytelling. there are also plenty of metaphors here and there. and the dedication to small details is quite amazing. the beautiful cinematography is like a cherry on top. i like this drama so much that i'm willing to overlook any kind of plot hole. 9.5/10 might give it a 10 after a few re-watches.

the raw is up on avistaz. waiting for the subs.

Ai's phone screen showed their recent LINE messages and it was like this:

Azuki: What's for dinner?
Ai: Curry.
Azuki: Are you stupid?
Azuki: We've had it 3 days in a row.
Ai: Then go buy it (dinner) yourself.

What this means depends on however you interpret it. As for me, I think they're dating or/and living together lol.

excellent drama. very well-made and relatable. i'm really glad it gave Sakurai Yuki some attention, she's been acting since forever but keeps getting minor and supporting roles, she deserves more.

Also, for anyone that has finished the drama, here's a little hint they put in the ending when Ai was reading messages from Azuki:

i re-winded that ending 3 times and it still caught me by surprise every time. wow. and the details, omg the details! how they lead to one another and how many things seems unrelated at first but actually play significant roles in the story telling. it was so masterful. i was in awe the whole time. i have to admit i headed into this film not knowing who the director was and that was my bad, but at least i know now.

YESS, thank you! So glad to find someone i could agree on this movie. it's been over a month and i'm still thinking about it. I like it a lot, gotta rewatch it someday.

true lol i’d be uneasy af if i didn’t look it up.

ikemen cast lol

Great! I just added another 1000 points yesterday. Still trying to gather more points to vote that request up. I don’t think it’s against the rules, as long as we don’t directly ask for subs in the avistaz comments section.

are you the user that put up the request on avistaz? i'm trying to gather more bonus points to vote up that request and make it more noticeable, though i don't think many subbers check that section often :(

cinema perfection.

I downloaded it from raredoramas.info

Sorry I know this is completely unrelated but has anyone here listened to the song ‘8’ by Billie Eilish? I can’t help but thinking about this drama every time that song is on. The lyrics, it’s like Saiko wrote it from her heart. And on top of that the song is called ‘8’. EIGHT ffs. It’s just so weird.

nice.

I like Sakaguchi Kentaro, I really do. Believe me, he was one of the reasons I started watching this movie. Yes, his acting here might be as good as the 2 leads but I can’t with the comments here (and on Letterboxd) praising his character as if he was the best bit of this movie. No lol wake tf up girls, open your eyes. He was the WORST. Even worse than Jun’s character. Like, what kind of man asked his girlfriend “Will you love me more if I save you?” when she was in danger and asking for help??? For real though he really made me thought that creepy stalker was sent by him to scare her and force her running to him for help. And also the part where he got jealous over the phone call, he raped her for fucks sake?!? Well, not really but it clearly was NOT consensual. I mean I’m so confused reading the comments and reviews, did I watch the same Narratage movie with them?? Anyway I’m still glad this time Kentaro didn’t settle for a likeable supporting character in a love triangle, his character was much more complex in this one and you could tell it was more challenging for him and he did it well. He reunited with Arimura Kasumi in Shoshite Ikiru in 2019 and I can’t wait to watch it.

Seriously the rating, please tell me y’all didn’t rate that low just because the ending was not your typical shoujo ending. This movie is good. Very well done, written and acted. I admit I do have a few problems with it but 6.5 is just ridiculous. And what’s with the 2 foreign language reviews that gave this movie below average ratings?? seriously??

First of all, I must say that there’s many things I liked from this movie. Namely the way the 2 main characters bonded over time, it was just so ideal to me. They reached out for each other when it was darkest in their lives and they knew how to save each other and gave each other the strength to move on. And on top of that they bonded over their common interest: films. Like, can you imagine? It’s like they found their perfect soulmate. If I were one of them, I’d have fell so hard and never let the other go. Also the silence was cleverly used. I mean, yes, this movie is long and slow and quiet but I never once felt like it was dragging. Heck, some moments nearly gave me anxiety because it felt so intense and suffocating just by seeing the characters’ feelings. And I’m still baffled that some people said this movie was forgettable lol it’s been almost 2 days and I can’t stop thinking about it, even when i watched other movies and drama. Maybe it just hit the right spot in me.

Just one thing though, the men in this movie were really jerks sometimes, 2 of them, it was really triggering. I mean they really made my blood boil with how they treated the female lead. I thought it was a flaw of this movie, but when I really thought about it, it’s just the characters being selfish because they were not flawless human beings, which was probably why I didn’t particularly like any of the 3 characters, I even found them so unlikable at times. But their relationships were very well depicted and I found the movie as a whole very interesting.

Overall I enjoyed it. Underrated movie. 8.5/10 with high rewatch value. As I said at the beginning, it’s definitely not your typical shoujo movie and certainly not for everyone.

Also can someone who likes this movie give it a decent review asap. Please give it the justice it needs. My English is not good enough to transfer all my feelings into words so I can’t do it.

i really want to start this because i really like Hirugao but i'm scared of the ending. i think i'll come back when this one finishes airing and check the spoilers.

damn, this was... amazing, it got my attention from beginning to end. i’m still in awe. the acting was astounding, more like breathtaking. Both Tao and Kyoko really turned the fake into reality, they were so smooth that i really believed they truly switched their faces for this movie. and to top it all off, Aimer for the theme song... oh god, my adrenaline is still going wild right now i’m willing to call this movie ‘perfect’.