missdaisy

I have high expectation for this drama, first of all, the title is great, super attractive and captivating. Then I liked how the movie started, enough tension to draw the viewer in... The premise was so good too: a lonely and stiff woman in modern Japan only got a year to live, and she decided to go all out in life, to be free and crazy and luxurious and love and hate like never before. And the male partner was good too, a host in Kabukicho, a natural womanizer with a caring and thoughtful manner (and he could cook too!). There were plenty clues that pointed to a good drama ahead. But no :) The premise was there, but the story was nowhere to be found. The meet-cute between ML and FL was not persuasive, I couldn't see how ML could come and ask FL for such a favor... Then I blamed the movie for skipping or avoiding all the key details. For example: it never tried to explain/show how the ML felt the FL "loveable", or at least tried to convince us that ML wanted to stay by FL's side because he felt touched, warm or something like that. One more scene that bothered me a lot was the first encounter between FL and ML's sister, FL was met with harsh and brutal words from that spoiled sister, and I really couldn't understand the motives or background story behind that personal attack (and funnily how these two girls got along so very well by the end of the movie, out of the blue). In short, all the premise of the movie wasn't translated into a convincing story. It's all over the places, the story was scattered and somehow made me feel like it tried too hard to be a 'slice of life' drama where every sad/bad sides of ppl should be met with natural empathy, if I don't feel it, then I must be a stupid/bad person :( But sorry, I don't like this movie a bit, I don't feel any chemistry between ML and FL (even as partners in crime/partners in life, not in a sense of romance), the relationships between the leads and the ppl close to them are haft-hearted too ( or 2 hours are not enough to portray anything convincing?). The only good thing about this movie maybe the aesthtics of cinematography, and that's all for me. Sad but true.