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The experiences and relationships of five senior students at a rural high school, during the last year leading to graduation.
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Remon no koro, Lemon no koro, 레몬일 때, 柠檬时期
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31 Mar 2007
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This movie will give you the feeling of how nearing graduation everyone leaves and move on with their lifes. The moie is covered with dramatic and romantic overtones, but its not one of those sugarcoated chick flick movie you would expect. Its for grown man like me longing for first love memories.
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Found this a very gentle and genuine feeling coming of age film. Mitsuki Tanimura is such a talented actress.
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We follow a group of teenagers who attend high school in rural Japan and who are about to graduate...
The movie deals with the whole variety of issues, teenagers face during that time: (unrequited) love, ambitions, dreams, insecurity, friendship and parting ways. While all these topics are handled well-enough and seriously, it's too much to handle for this movie after all. I never really got enough insight in any of these characters to really care even though the cast does a pretty good job (reuniting Mitsuki Tanimura and Hoshi Ishida three years after CANARY) and I loved all the settings.
So, this would have been better with a more focused plot but was still a fine watch overall and maybe… -
Unrequited love sucks. If you want to go after love, study hard. Never assume, never surrender.
This coming-of-age movie is on point. Everyone can relate to the characters. The five characters depicted different kinds of love. Friendship. Unrequited love. Unconditional love. Requited love, but almost long distance. Hopeless love. Despite having strong feelings, they never let it cloud their judgments,
Nana Eikura and Mitsuki Tanimura acted so well. Tasuku Emoto and Hoshi Ishida did okay. And Naojiro Hayashi was awful. He was awkward, and I really feel like banging my head on the wall during his close-up scenes.
Really nice film!
The world is full of passion.
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They should've made the whole film about Mitsuki Tanimura character's arc tbh. As much as I like Emoto and Eikura their slice of the story was wack.
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Sun-drenched images and a narrative that prefers realism to kitsch (most of the time). I liked the gentle vibe, but in the end I unfortunately didn't feel as emotionally close to the characters as I would like with such films. Still enjoyable, though.
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Musical story more interesting, overuse of drawn out silence between lines. Nice technique but overused.