both movies are about the female lead having an illness and spending their remaining time with the male lead. both male leads are the same as well
Satsuki's lover Hitoshi dies suddenly. She is unable to get over his death and is mired in deep sadness. Satsuki keeps thinking about the moon shadow phenomenon, which she heard about in the past. The moon shadow phenomenon is a mysterious event that allows a person to meet the dead at the end of a full moon
Both movies have a very similar concept. Plot is set in present time but occasional flashbacks to the past to explain the story. Both leads have very unfortunate endings which are revealed very early into the movies.
The most similar part is in the iconic lines. In "Love Letter" which shows the female lead shouting "How are you? I'm fine" into the wilderness while "I want to eat your pancreas" is the iconic line in the movie. Both lines will leave extremely deep impression in the viewer.
The most similar part is in the iconic lines. In "Love Letter" which shows the female lead shouting "How are you? I'm fine" into the wilderness while "I want to eat your pancreas" is the iconic line in the movie. Both lines will leave extremely deep impression in the viewer.
Shogo is left blind and mute from an accident but he is able to live a fruitful life as a composer. He receives ongoing therapy from the hospital where nurse Kana works. Just when their relationship is about to blossom into romance, tragedy strikes when Shogo is killed in a car accident. At the moment of Shogo's death, a shooting star falls and gives him the chance to live again for four more days. But he is unrecognizable to his friend and forbidden to reveal his true identity. Shogo decides to express his feelings of affection to Kana.
Both depict a high school aged female lead with a terminal illness and a bubbly persona, and male leads that don’t have any large reaction to learning about the illness. Acting is wonderful, and each movie depicts unique and meaningful friendships amongst the characters. Both movies have unexpected twists and turns with emotional voice overs/narrations.
A summer hit in HK, this romantic fantasy from Jingle Ma is shamelessly manipulative, incredibly cheesy, and totally sappy. It goes to extreme lengths to yank your chains and push your buttons...and it works. Amazingly, this manufactured piece of sap is also an entertaining, compelling movie. An HK version of Ghost and Always, Fly Me to Polaris stars Richie Ren as Onion, a blind-mute who’s in love with his nurse Autumn (Cecilia Cheung). Before any feelings can be exchanged, he dies in a Meet Joe Black kinda way and proceeds to win a celestial contest. This flimsy plot device states he can have one wish - which he uses to live again. They deny him that, but give him the opportunity to return for one week.
Chizuru, a typical Japanese young female office worker, is socially clumsy, poor at romance and unhappy with her job. Being weary from a busy and stressful city life, she seriously desires to end her life somewhere faraway from the city and leaves for deep in the mountains, where she finds one lonely house. Then she attempts to commit suicide by taking sleeping pills in the guest house but she fails... This is the beginning of her new life.
The story centers on a girl who is told she only has six months to live. In the spring of her first year of high school, she confessed to a boy who is in the same class, even though it's their first time meeting. The two gradually grow closer as lovers, and on her birthday, they go to see the 'Strawberry Moon', which is said to be a time when you will be forever bound to the person you love if you watch it together.
