Rainbow Song

虹の女神 ‧ Movie ‧ 2006
Rainbow Song is a beautiful, yet tragic love story about a romance that never happened. Two young film students, Tomoya and Aoi, become fast friends after being put on a project together. Quickly, Tomoya becomes enamoured with the young girl but is too afraid to tell her his true feelings. After graduation, Tomoya continues living in Japan working on a film set and Aoi leaves to work in America. The movie takes a turn as Tomoya finds out that Aoi never made it to her destination because of a plane crash. He then starts to become consumed with his thoughts, day-dreaming about the love affair that never was nor can be
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Makoto encounters the love of his life in the girl called Shizuru. However their relationship turns brief as Makoto discovers that Shizuru's photographic know how, outmatches his own and won some international award. They end up separating with her extracting a promise from dream of becoming a professional photographer. Three years later, the promise still hasn't been fulfilled. All the memories were flash back as Makoto received a letter from New York, sent by Shizuru.
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Takabayashi Matsuri learns that she only has 10 years to live due to an incurable disease. She decides to not dwell on her life and not to fall in love, but she meets Manabe Kazuto at a school reunion.

~~ Adapted from the novel "Yomei 10 Nen" by Kosaka Ruka
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Rainbow Song is a beautiful, yet tragic love story about a romance that never happened. Two young film students, Tomoya and Aoi, become fast friends after being put on a project together. Quickly, Tomoya becomes enamoured with the young girl but is too afraid to tell her his true feelings. After graduation, Tomoya continues living in Japan working on a film set and Aoi leaves to work in America. The movie takes a turn as Tomoya finds out that Aoi never made it to her destination because of a plane crash. He then starts to become consumed with his thoughts, day-dreaming about the love affair that never was nor can be
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both include stories about starcrossed lovers. In the beginning we find out one of characters died and then go on a trip down memory lane. In Love Letter it's more of a side story while in Rainbow Song it's the main focus. Shunji Iwai was involved in the making of both films.
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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.
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Min Ho, a music producer who is struggling to write a new song because of the lack of inspiration. He is told by his manager that he has to find love so he would have emotions to write a new melody. He then meets a Chinese tourist named Ling Ling. Min Ho is inspired by Ling Ling but due to their language barrier he decides to adds her as a friend on the mobile messenger app LINE to communicate with one anoth
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An ordinary high school student, Min Ah lives with her mother, who occasionally acts like a child. Min Ah is a shy girl who does not have a lot of friends. That is why she doesn't enjoy school that much. The only thing that is fun for her is to watch Ki Soo, the boy who works in front of her school controlling traffic. He's a little crazy. Min Ah lives with the hope that someday she will also meet the fateful love of her life, just like the love that Ki Soo once had with an older student from her school. One day, a new family moves into the villa one floor below Min Ah. It's the family of Young Jae, a college student. Young Jae tries to be overly friendly because they are new neighbours. Min Ah's mother prematurely assumes that Min Ah has a new boyfriend, and Young Jae simply goes along with her. One day, Min Ah falls for one of Young Jae's tricks.
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