DramaFanXL

Depth of Field should occupy a chapter, if not a reference, in a young filmmaker's textbook on constructing a drama in a limited format. Six 20-odd minute episodes are all that Director Kawasaki Ryo needs to present and flesh out how its two high school student characters, Hayakawa and Konno, meet, react and intertwine their physical and emotional growth paths to a happy and satisfying conclusion as young adults. Much of this is due to the uncredited writer, but the casting of Usa Takuma as Hayakawa and Hirano Koshu as Konno is significant for creating and sustaining an almost hearbreaking tide throughout so much of the series about how young people desire and need love to support their growth toward adulthood, and how strongly the pull towards coupling is both nourishing and fulfilling, if not essential. DOF is perhaps one of the most sympathetic and emotionally satisfying BLs of the year.