PrettyCarEye

If that's the way you feel, that's fine by me. My opinion still stands.

"I was never into the overly cutesy romance ... the depressing, romances without being overly nonsenial is my type of vibe, and they portrayed this well"

You can say they're my vibe too, however, this doesn't negate my sentiments.

What??? What is the relevance of what you wrote to what I wrote?
Moreover, faking bravery can mean the difference between your survival and your death. Faking your ethnicity just wreaks of self-hatred. I think it's clear which one is 'better'. :/

This movie expertly demonstrates every teaching in the bible about covetousness & envy.

Very typical of shows that feature Lee Min Jung ... that's way I'm not really interested in watching this show although I love family dramas. I hate forced romance story lines.

I got a notification but can't see what you wrote. Did you delete it or is there a glitch on MDL? This is the second time that I got a notification about a comment, but when I go to check I see nothing.

So everyone's talking about Yoo Ah-In, but Song Kang Ho was the standout here to me. That scene where he wailed ... "Bichoso! Abbi ..." it just seared through my heart a thousand times over. A bitter cry of grief, agony, regret ... perfectly rendered, beautifully performed. 8/10

I don't understand why he'd be okay with the whole of Japan essentially f***** his wife in doll form? After all, the doll is the spitting image of Sonoko, even down to her crotch area. Maybe because his wife was a freak (Tetsuo pretty much admitted this in his ending narration) who liked the idea of being used by many men? Making the doll in her spitting image was indeed her idea. Or maybe Tetsuo is the freak with fantasies of being a cuckold (a man who enjoys watching other men have sex with his woman)? I would have preferred if the doll was not used for sexual objectification or if Tetsuo had made the doll just for his own use (to symbolize his desperation & devastation at lost of a woman he deeply loved). But making the doll for commercial use & having all kind of weirdos have sex with it ... taints their love story a bit for me. So I'm going to give this a 7/10. Could have been an 8 had they handled that part of the story just a little more tastefully.

I like this movie, and Takahashi Issei is great here, but ...

Agree, he easily became one of my favourite Japanese actors in the last couple of years. I really like his understated way of performing.

... they always end tragically with either no HE or someone ending up dead.

Should have seen the ending coming because part of the story is set in NY during the late 90s, but it took me totally by surprise. Also this is a Chinese romantic drama movie ...

Leads are cheaters, they cheated on their respective partners with each other, then they became distrustful of each other ... wondering, 'You sneaked around and cheated with me, so how do I know you're not doing the same behind my back'? I wanted a HE ... because I'm a sucker, but at the same time ... karma. For that reason, I wasn't too devastated. The spouses they cheated on got the happy ending instead! haha

Does it have a happy ending?

Oh, actually, now that I think about it, I think you're right. The kid was indeed too old to be his, given that he's around 16 - 17 when the child & his mother ran into him at the cinema? If the kid was his, then he'd be between 10 - 12 yrs old when he got the girl pregnant (boys at this age can get a girl pregnant; I've heard of cases where this happen). Moreover, we're talking about Japan here, the place where the weirdest sh-- can & do happen all the time. But I think what you surmise makes more sense. She was likely already pregnant when Yachiyo fell in love with her and she rejected him knowing her situation ... which is exactly why she told him he was still a child who wasn't ready for adult responsibility. Makes sense! Thanks!

Actually, I thought him dying at the end was pretty lame because it was so random. I felt like one of the leads had to be killed off not because the story warranted it, but the Japanese's weird aversion to positive ending love stories. If it's a romance, then someone has to die, otherwise they don't feel it's realistic (which is lame, imo). I explained my dissatisfaction with the end more in my comment on the movie page.

Was Ikkun, the little boy that ran into them at the cinema, Yachiyo's son? I think that was what's implied? She left him & had the baby on her own because she thought he was still too childish to be a dad ... did I understand that right?

Was Ikkun, the little boy that ran into them at the cinema, Yachiyo's son? I think that was what's implied? She left him & had the baby on her own because she thought he was still too childish to be a dad ... did I understand that right?

I guess this wouldn't be a Japanese movie if somebody didn't die at the end. Most romance related movies from Japan are predictable as hell, in that just as the couple is about to get their happy ending, one of the leads has to die. Sometimes, it's believable; other times, like now, it's just plain stupid! I'm not saying EVERY romance movie has to have a HE, but the death of the ml here was totally random. It felt like something the writer threw in there in order to stick to the usual 'let's tear the lovers apart thru death' formula. I mean, the knife wound he sustained didn't even look all that deep (notice the blood barely covered the tip of the knife). For him to lose all that blood from such a small wound ... not buying it. I was afraid that he would be stabbed multiple times as that sicko squatted over him, but when he didn't I thought surely he'd survive! That was a totally survivable wound. Moreover, why the heck wasn't his first thought to call emergency services to save his life?! Just totally random & simply placed there to torment the viewer. I hate when writers do that. The movie lost major points for me because of that even though it was a pretty decent high school/coming of age type show otherwise. 6/10

I find myself being totally annoyed with the ending ...