Oishikute Naku Toki (2025)

Kleenex in hand, take the dive.

What a love, what a friendship, what a story. 🥹🥹
Aptly titled, Taste and Tears will burrow into your heart and wound your soul, just to mend it stronger than it was before you began. This story is beautifully wound, the acting is great, and the overall ending is very satisfying. I am very glad I experienced this story, I found it so poetic.

Okay, but not great

I can’t help the fact that I’ve seen Better Days, a Chinese movie about a similar topic, and that movie is wayyyyy better than this one. But this one is completely competent. The acting is fine, the cinematography is fine, and the story is fine. Just not particularly amazing. My standards are too high now haha