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sunako_yue) wrote2016-04-19 04:04 pm
sunako_yue) wrote2016-04-19 04:04 pm
Sayonara Bokutachi no Youchien - my review
Kanna (Mana Ashida) attends kindergarten in central Tokyo. Her friend was been absent in school for several days. Worried about her friend, Kanna gathers fellow classmates Hiroshitake Taniguchi (Tomoya Hashimoto), Takujitsu Uehara (Ruiki Sato), Kotomi Mochida (Miyu Honda) and Shunyuu Horikawa (Hiroyuki Kuroda) and they take a trip to out to Takao Station in western Tokyo hoping to find their friend. A pact is made before they sneak out of school that no matter what happens they won't cry ... (asianwiki)
I don't think there is a single dragging moment in the whole movie, and most of it was because of the cast. No need to add that little Mana-chan is a wonderful actress, but the other kids were wonderful as well. Like Miyu-chan, who I found adorable when she guested in Shabekuri 007. Or the little boy who cried so well. Or the sick boy who looked like a young Daniel Radcliffe (seriously, he needed a pair of glasses and could have been easily a Harry Potter). Matsushima Hikari, who played one of the teacher, had a tiny role and one I could not fully comprehend. She is supposed to be in her last days as a teacher, and while she is having a smoke and lazing around is when the children run away. I like this actress so much it was like watching an old friend. Her voice, her slim fingers, her calm voice... I wanted to cry just seeing her. She pulls that out of me.
The promise of not crying on their journey is not accomplished, but the children were so good at crying I was almost happy they couldn't keep their promises. It was impossible not to cry a little bit at the end. So while it is a entertaining movie, warm and human, the end was good precisely because of that bitter-sweetness.
**My rating: 8/10**
I don't think there is a single dragging moment in the whole movie, and most of it was because of the cast. No need to add that little Mana-chan is a wonderful actress, but the other kids were wonderful as well. Like Miyu-chan, who I found adorable when she guested in Shabekuri 007. Or the little boy who cried so well. Or the sick boy who looked like a young Daniel Radcliffe (seriously, he needed a pair of glasses and could have been easily a Harry Potter). Matsushima Hikari, who played one of the teacher, had a tiny role and one I could not fully comprehend. She is supposed to be in her last days as a teacher, and while she is having a smoke and lazing around is when the children run away. I like this actress so much it was like watching an old friend. Her voice, her slim fingers, her calm voice... I wanted to cry just seeing her. She pulls that out of me.
The promise of not crying on their journey is not accomplished, but the children were so good at crying I was almost happy they couldn't keep their promises. It was impossible not to cry a little bit at the end. So while it is a entertaining movie, warm and human, the end was good precisely because of that bitter-sweetness.
**My rating: 8/10**