ただ、君を愛してる
Just, Loving You

International Title: Heavenly Forest
Staring: Miyazaki Aoi, Tamaki Hiroshi, Kuroki Meisa, Koide Keisuke

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A story of a group of university students. Makoto is a quiet and awkward guy who loves photography. Shizuru is a weird and childish girl who often lies. They trespass into a forest to take photos. This movie has great quirky characters and a beautiful soundtrack. Bring tissues, I’m sure this sentimental flick will make you cry!

This is a really nice movie. It’s not slow paced, but it is not action packed either. The characters, I believe, are what make this movie work. I particularly like the fact that Shizuru is ambiguous, you can’t tell if she is lying or telling the truth, and poor Makoto is as gullible as they get.

However, It is hard to review this movie critically without giving away important plot developments. Thus, I’m putting a lot of my review under spoiler tags:

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Some of the English in this was hilarious! In particular when Makoto goes to a gallery and an English speaker just says “Hi! Please”. At least they didn’t subtitle.

I really have to commend Tamaki Hiroshi, he is really great at being socially awkward. I love everything Miyazaki Aoi does as well as Koide Keisuke even if he does look like he spent too much time with a bottle of fake tan.

Really liked the characters

There was just something about the ending…

Over all it was a nice film.

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From Yes Asia DVD Premium Edition DVD Normal Edition Soundtrack Making Of DVD

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Su Ki Da is an acquired taste. It tells the story of Yu and Yusuke who live near each other and often see each other on their walk home from school. Yusuke quit the basketball team and wants to work in the music industry. He plays the guitar each day after school, writing his own song, but so far had only worked out one tune. He promises her that he’ll play the song for her when it is finished.

Skip forward 17 years and the two meet again by coincidence.

Su Ki Da is slow paced. It often shows only one character in shot, with many things occurring off camera. The movie is defined by its silences, shadows, shots of the sky.

The first half of the movie focuses on Yu, with the second half when they are grown up focusing on Yusuke. It’s nice to get both perspectives, however I some how feel like I don’t really “know” the characters.

This movie is good for language learners as the lines are said slowly, in small chunks. It makes it easy for the language learner to break it all down, and time for them to process what is being said. At least, it was that way for me.

I enjoyed Yusuke’s song. It is now in my head, and I don’t mind. It was a nice tune.

It is a little two slow paced for me.

It was nice to watch something a bit different from the norm, but over all it was waaay too slow paced for me to really enjoy it.

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