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Perfect Summer Film
I was so happy when I heard about this film being part of the Nippon Connection line-up. Honestly, everything about this film is so much fun. I love the pace, the acting, the music and I adore the passion these kids have. The dialogues are natural and fun. This is the perfect summer film with quite an unconventional ending. I'm looking forward to the future projects of the director and the cast too. Something that really surprised me is how the director could mix a lot of genres without making it a chaotic mess. This is truly a film for everyone.Was this review helpful to you?
It's a Really Good Film!
It's been a while since I've seen such a refreshing but entertaining take on the "Seishun" film.There's so much in the film that in hindsight I'm really impressed it didn't feel overwhelming.
The acting was brilliant; particularly the FL whose facial expressions were so animated! I'm also a fan of Cody Lee so the music was also a win in my opinion. And i liked that we're not positioned to dislike any of the characters, i thought that was really beautiful.
If you're looking for a summery samurai-y film, this is it! But more than anything it's a really good film. Contrary to some comments, I liked the ending and feel like it did the film/story justice. Looking forward to rewatching!
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Homage to film making
Whoever liked the movie 13 Assassins from 2010 or the original from 1963 will also like this one even if it’s something completely different. But not only in respect to the Samurai theme, to me it works as a kind of homage to cinema and film making in general.The enthusiastic teen protagonists pay a detailed attention to those Samurai action scenes and I think it covers the best broom-sword-wanna-be-fight in cinematic history 😉
That time machine thingy is a bit weird, but if one can see it as critique to the recent short-clip-tiktok-crap, why not…just it seems men have long hair again in the future 😊
Enjoyable summer vibe movie, good and fun actors all over. I liked how the rivals come together finally for their cinematic work for the higher goal. And yep, some small romance there also, while not being the main focus.
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SEISHUN!
I LOVEEE ITTTTT!! I love everything about this film, the premise, the story, the music, the acting I LOVE ITI love how it contains some our worry like decreasing of attention span to the extent that they make it too much in future we only had 5seconds movie, I love the contradictory between an anti romcom person that write and direct romcom movie (tho maybe she didnt realize it), the movie about samurai era in past starring by mirai jin (future person that do time travel), and in samurai world, the meaning of killing your rival also means you love your rivals (because you pull all of ur strength to fight them),
as for the ending, I got it some people may not happy for the ending, but this also another thing I love since the ending didn't really show whether rintaro back to future or not (even tho its decided they'll remove the film and rintaro getting back to future), so viewers may interpret as they want, but in short its really scream SEISHUN!!!
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Masterpiece! GEM!!!!!
https://archive.org/details/its-a-summer-film watch it there for freeThis is a rare Japanese piece that has AMAZING acting and a really funky relatable and very healthy plot
It is WONDERFUL sweet humorous deep creative movie
Highly highly highly recommended
I found it by chance on this amazing list of great shows
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls525827220/?sort=popularity%2Casc
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Romance?
In the first half of the film I thought it would be how they make a samurai movie. They never go over the script aside from 1 or 2 lines nor do they even show the process of how they began to figure out the costume department. The time travel had very little explanation and somehow everyone accepted it. Apparently this was a romance? I saw barely any interaction from the main leads the only thing we know is they both like samurai movies.Was this review helpful to you?
