is a 2016 Japanese
romantic drama
Romance films involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion (emotion), passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their ...
film directed by
Takahiro Miki
is a Japanese film director, film, television director, television and music video director.
Works Films
TV series
*''Dragon Seinendan'' (2012)
*''Irodorihimura'' (2012, episode 4)
*''My Undead Yokai Girlfriend'' (2024)
Music videos
*"Tomorr ...
based on the novel of the same name.
The film stars
Sota Fukushi
is a Japanese actor. He first rose to prominence portraying Gentaro Kisaragi in ''Kamen Rider Fourze'' (2011–2012). He has since had notable roles in television series '' Koinaka'' (2015) and ''My Lover's Secret'' (2017), as well as films ' ...
and
Nana Komatsu. It was released in Japan by
Toho
is a Japanese entertainment company that primarily engages in producing and distributing films and exhibiting stage plays. It is headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, and is one of the core companies of the Osaka-based Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group. ...
on December 17, 2016.
Plot
On February 15, 20-year-old Takatoshi Minamiyama, a visual arts undergraduate and satirist in
Kyoto
Kyoto ( or ; Japanese language, Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu. , the city had a population of 1.46 million, making it t ...
, falls in love at first sight with Emi Fukuju while boarding a train for college. After an awkward first meeting, the two promise to meet again in the following days. With the help of his friend, Shoichi Ueyama, Takatoshi asks for a date with Emi, at the end of which he confesses his love for her.
Takatoshi finds Emi to be strange, being able to predict things that would happen to him, with the tendency to cry whenever he does something nice to her. She also never wants to spend time with him after midnight. After the two consummate their relationship on March 1, Takatoshi discovers Emi's journal that she purposefully left on the table. Much to his confusion, Emi wrote them as if she races through time backwards: the first page is dated March 16, and the last February 15.
The next day, Emi reveals that she is a being from a world in which time runs backwards; what humans perceive as the future she already experienced as her past, and vice versa. Emi has been watching Takatoshi from afar since he was young; she was the adult woman who rescued him from drowning at the age of 5. Because her memories of him fade as time goes on (and her time goes backwards), she keeps a journal to remind her of him. She also tells him that they can only be together for a month every five years, and because 20 is the only time their age matches, the current month is the last time where they can pursue a relationship.
Takatoshi initially feels conflicted of the fake nature of his and Emi's relationship. However, he is encouraged by Ueyama to pursue it nevertheless. On March 16, the last day they would be together as equals, Takatoshi draws a sketch of Emi, then the two wait for the day to pass at the train station where they first met, after which Emi disappears.
Five years later, Takatoshi meets with 15-year-old Emi and gives her her sketch. A further ten years later, Takatoshi rescues 5-year-old Emi from a festival fire. The film then cuts to a montage of the film presented from Emi's perspective, i.e. backwards, ending with her and Takatoshi's introduction on February 15, her last day she met him as equals.
Cast
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Sota Fukushi
is a Japanese actor. He first rose to prominence portraying Gentaro Kisaragi in ''Kamen Rider Fourze'' (2011–2012). He has since had notable roles in television series '' Koinaka'' (2015) and ''My Lover's Secret'' (2017), as well as films ' ...
as Takatoshi Minamiyama (南山高寿 ''Minamiyama Takatoshi'')
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Nana Komatsu as Emi Fukuju (福寿愛美 ''Fukuju Emi'')
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Kaya Kiyohara
is a Japanese actress, model and singer. She won the Best Supporting Actress award at the 45th Japan Academy Film Prize for the film ''In The Wake''.
Biography
Born in Osaka, Kiyohara joined Amuse Inc. in 2014. She has since starred in a numbe ...
as young Emi
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Masahiro Higashide as Shoichi Ueyama (上山正一 ''Ueyama Shōichi'')
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Yuki Yamada as Hayashi (林)
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Akira Otaka
(born 1957) is a Japanese actor.
Selected filmography
Films
*''Charisma'' (1999)
*''Cream Lemon'' (2004)
*''Persona'' (2008)
*'' Climber's High'' (2008)
*'' The Great Passage'' (2013)
*'' The Vancouver Asahi'' (2014)
*'' My Tomorrow, Your Yest ...
as Takamori Minamiyama (南山 たかもり ''Minamiyama Takamori'')
* Yoshiko Miyazaki as Keiko Minamiyama (南山 えいこ ''Minamiyama Keiko'')
Music
The theme song is "Happy End" by
Back Number
is a Japanese rock power trio formed in 2004. The band consists of Iyori Shimizu (lead vocals, guitar), Kazuya Kojima (bass guitar, backing vocals), and Hisashi Kurihara (drums, percussion. The group signed to independent record label Idolsmith ...
.
Reception
The film opened at #4 with 150,000 admissions in 306 screens, totalling in gross.
References
External links
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2016 films
2010s Japanese-language films
2010s Japanese films
Films directed by Takahiro Miki
Films produced by Tomoya Nishino
Toho films
Films based on Japanese novels
Japanese romantic drama films
2016 romantic drama films
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