Faarian

Nakayama Miho was only 15. But the moral standards were very different back then. In 70s, scenes of naked teenagers became kind of normal

I couldn't even find its raws, did you?

The FL acts like a heroine of a tragic love (her tears, her voice, her expressions, ...) while the ML is more like a nice big brother who's worried about her little sister's exam.

Thanks:)

Ok, I'll do it. I love Momoe anyway:)

Oh, I was just watching it an hour ago, but dropped it after 20 min:) Thanks anyway!

It's so unique & funny!

Thank you very much:)

Futari Monologue (2017) maybe

I can find it only with Spanish subs, but no English?!

Txs:)

Down With Machine Translations!

I wish I could write a review on it, but the subs are machine-translations and in many places, unintelligible. I can just say that the movie made me curious, so if there are proper subs someday, I'll watch it again. I'd like to know its message. After all, these days, unlike this movie, most J-films avoid serious stuff, whatsoever.

You're prisoned in a room. This is not nice, but can be tolerable in some situations, but the real disaster is that the walls are coming toward you gradually, so your body is gonna crushed sooner or later. In other words, time is your main enemy.
Then how can you enjoy this situation? How can you do anything meaningful? How can you care about others, especially those who are outside such room? Aya, her family and the Japanese culture tells you how!

As much as we know (Aya's dairy, ...), there wasn't Haruto for the real Aya.

I haven't watched it yet, but have it in mind.
I'll watch another work of him, My Darling of the Mountains (2008) soon.

Thanks for the information!

Haha, it was my comment from 4 years ago:) These days, I wouldn't write like this:)
Fun fact: After watching this, I began to dislike Kusanagi Tsuyoshi but a I changed my mind totally a couple of days ago after watching this hidden gem:
https://kisskh.at/4571-boku-to-kanojo-to-kanojo-no-ikiru-michi

Another drama of 2000s: Following your dreams, being honest to yourself, leaving your family and city, enjoying life to fullest, doing arts and so on and so forth. However I think the story telling is weak (no real character development, ...). It's difficult to like the girls, maybe except for Rei. At least, she sings well, I enjoyed it!
Oh, when I checked the cast, I read about Kobayashi Mao or 'Maki'. It's so sad!

Now that you both love 'Kaede', let me share this cover with you. Honestly I like it better than the original, but it's just my taste:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6I-KjyiKcM&ab_channel=%E6%9C%9D%E5%80%89%E3%81%95%E3%82%84%2CSayaAsakura

Shimatani Hitomi is damn pretty here, the kind of pretty you want for jealous, mean girl characters like here. The way she announces her break-up ('gomene', 'jane', smiling, waving her hands) is one of memorable scenes of this drama! It's funny she started her singing career as an enka singer!