Real Japonism

This week, I'll introduce you another Japanese romantic movie that was released this winter, which is "Drowning knife (Oboreru Knife). I went to see it, and I was really impressed by all the beautiful scenes that appeared on the screen. Natsume and Kou, taken from the official website Brief story: Natsume, a 15 year old girl who is also a popular model, moves for far from Tokyo for her family reasons. She was completely bored living in the countryside, but she meets Kou, a boy so different from everyone in the way he lives in a complete freedom. Although not getting on well at the beginning, Natsume eventually realises she is so attracted by Kou, and they'd eventually get together. They felt like they could do anything if they stayed together. However, a tragic event happens on a day of summer festival. Feeling of strength broken, the bond between them break too. What decision will they make at about their future...? Yeah, it was quite difficult to write the b...

In Japan, people engage in watching both Japanese movies and movies that are imported from abroad. More about the culture of movie in Japan some other day, I will introduce you one of the Japanese movies I've watched recently, which is 「ぼくは明日、昨日のきみとデートする」. It is, as you can probably see from the poster presented below, a romantic story between University students, and the English title is "Tomorrow I Will Date with Yesterday's You". It's based on one of the best sold book with the same title, and I myself had already read the book when they announced they are gonna make a movie out of it. I was really excited to see the movie, as it had already become one of my favourite book by the time the movie was released. Brief story: Takatoshi, a student of art university in Kyoto, falls in love with a girl when he sees her for the first time on the way to his university. They start to have conversation, and eventually start to go on date, but she cries every time they...