Panino Manino

I'm rewatching and I may change my opinion after I finish (there's 2 episodes left), but while watching I realized that the ending that I remember not liking so much "made sense". That's because by the middle the ending is practically spelled by the characters. The decisions they made in the end where coherent with the ways they said they felt and wished to act.
While I may dislike that it was not all good and chill, that they like so many series put some drama in the end, at least not I can comprehend and accept their thinking.

Disliked the drama near the end.
Hard to sympathize with Yuki when he put no efforts into adaption to their situation. It's nonsensical to blame Koyomi for not remembering, like it was her fault for forgetting. He should know better and do something about it, but it get worse? Koyomi was actually making and putting notes around the house, that Yuki never noticed, but what was the point when it had zero effect on her behavior? She made notes that she never uses, what? I don't understand this detail.

Raws never it seems...

Instead of the japanese version (and the anime) I recommend the korean version of Josee.

Remember that he was the one that keep insisting and forcing their relationship to start and she accepted after she felt a bit safe with him? Remember when he freak out thinking she was cheating and not serious about him? Remember when he started to hate her when he discovered that she wasn't the pure model she idealized?
You see, that's why I criticize this character, he was never serious enough to actually know and understand her and he took everything as an attack to him completely ignoring all the painful experiences he managed to discovered she had experienced. Pay attention to the situation with him reading her phone messages. He took it all as a betrayal to him instead of the obvious reaction to the way he was behaving and talking with her.

Wowowowowow hold on! hold on!
I only watched the first episode yet for this reason I only read the beginning of your comment by from what I heard I think you're exaggerating. Yes, there's "sexism" in the story but the part about the protagonist "being there" just because of her gender and famous father isn't true!
I'll come back to this comment after I finished, be prepared!

Talking about Hidetaka Yoshioka his character is the only bad thing in all of this, but not in the original at least, in half the sequels when he's character Jun grows up. He grows up to become a really disgusting human being like I commented on the other entries, seriously...
But what I wanted to comment is that I watched the 1980 movie, "A Distant Cry from Spring". It's setting is a small farm in Hokkaido and he plays the son of the main character. I think it's funny, it's like he was already working there in Hokkaido when the producers needed some kid to play Jun and he was conveniently selected for the role...

A shame that they don't let these shorts spread easy out there, they looks very interesting.

I already put Baseball Girl on my list, also tried to find "Alone Together" to no successm but I found "사진 (Photography, 2014)".

Thanks! I had saved and finally watched now and I liked! Even commented bellow.
By the way, there are other shorts with Min-a actress?

What is it that people didn't understood about the ending?
Yes, I agree that it's confusing because when you think about this we aren't seeing Yun-jeong or Min-a "story", we are seeing Ji-won's and she only knows that those tow tells her.
I think that Yun-jeong and Min-a where only distant, not officially broke up, that's why the two where communicating so intimately. When you think about it it was Min-a who really used Ji-won to try to force Yun-jeong to get close to her again.
"Poor" Jin-won, I don't like what she did, but she was probably just discovered that she was bisexual and that actual love (be either between man and woman or woman and woman) is not idealized like she thought it was and wrote in her stories. In the end she asked Min-a is she was "the man" in the relationship, and ended being "the woman" in her story at the beginning, feeling all hurt and wanting to die after being unceremoniously discarded.

1965 beautiful B&W noir by Yôji Yamada with Chieko Baisho.

I liked this movie, the destiny of the two fathers, how the protagonist became "valuable" and how the characters ended together.
Aside the classic "woman hysterics" from movies of those times the script is tightly tied.

I still can't find this movie anywhere.

Would be better if the title was changed for the more known "The Village".

This is ridiculous, they put three versions of this story here but not the original from 1965 that I just watched and want to mark here!

Her smile is powerful!

Too late, I'm trying to survive a case of crippling depression right now.
Watch movies is the most I can do to district the mind (Izumi Ashikawa is helping a lot, not only because of her looks, mostly because the characters I'm seeing her play makes you feel good).

This entry is all wrong.
There's a 1980 first season with 13 episodes.
A 1981 second season with 21 episodes.
A very long 1982 special.
A long 1986 special.
A 1989 third season with 4 episodes.
And lastly, a 1992 good bye special.

For what I understood watching without subtitles this movie is not good, but it was worth watching for the sole Kiki Kirin's scene. She performance was so good! Clashes with everything else in this movie, almost feels out of place.