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sunako_yueSet during the Meiji Restoration period of Edo era Japan, Naoyuki (Masato Sakai) belongs to the 8th generation of the Inoyama family, a wealthy family known for finance & accounting. He is also a gifted mathematician and uses the abacus with extreme skills. Naoyuki works under the declining Kaga domain. Because of this, Naoyuki and his wife Koma (Yukie Nakama) suffer hardships as their stature and wealth dissipates.
I searched this movie for a long time. It was a MUST SEE movie for me, since I love Nakama Yukie and Sakai Masato. The pace of the movie is a bit slow, especially at the beginning when I could barely understand a thing. Once Yukie comes in scene, things start to get better and it is when the plot finally starts to flow.
I like the movie, since it has a touch of sweetness as well as reality. Even the soundtrack was cute and calm, just like the story and characters. All in all, the story is a slice of life: about a family who loves the abacus, a skill that goes from father to son; it is also about marriage and financial problems. Since it takes from Sakai Masato's character when he was young, then gets married, then has children and finally, when he is old, it may seem that some scenes happened out of nowhere (like, huh? they were married yesterday and today she is pregnant?) but that is because of the lack of explanation of how many years have gone.
I was moved by Yukie's tears in one scene. And Sakai-san did not disappoint me either. Actually, the whole cast was good, and there were scenes that impacted me more than others. Like when Sakai-san makes his son searched the coin in the rain.
So more than sword, it is about abacus and family. A slice of life, the kind I enjoy to read and watch.
My rating: 8/10
I searched this movie for a long time. It was a MUST SEE movie for me, since I love Nakama Yukie and Sakai Masato. The pace of the movie is a bit slow, especially at the beginning when I could barely understand a thing. Once Yukie comes in scene, things start to get better and it is when the plot finally starts to flow.
I like the movie, since it has a touch of sweetness as well as reality. Even the soundtrack was cute and calm, just like the story and characters. All in all, the story is a slice of life: about a family who loves the abacus, a skill that goes from father to son; it is also about marriage and financial problems. Since it takes from Sakai Masato's character when he was young, then gets married, then has children and finally, when he is old, it may seem that some scenes happened out of nowhere (like, huh? they were married yesterday and today she is pregnant?) but that is because of the lack of explanation of how many years have gone.
I was moved by Yukie's tears in one scene. And Sakai-san did not disappoint me either. Actually, the whole cast was good, and there were scenes that impacted me more than others. Like when Sakai-san makes his son searched the coin in the rain.
So more than sword, it is about abacus and family. A slice of life, the kind I enjoy to read and watch.
My rating: 8/10
