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It's been years since I watched, but from what I remember: I think that the contract for them to be basically tenants of the farm meant that the father couldn't sell the farm to someone else to run. Like they have the rights to live there for a specific amount of time and maybe, I don't really remember, but maybe buy the farm back? So if they still had that agreement then that means yes she owns the land but she has to abide by the agreement and not sell it until the timeline of that contract is up, so the quick payout that she want's would have been impossible.

The parents are hard people to like, the brothers are a little better, but really the only one I remember liking all the way through is the adopted brother. The grandmother is the worst

It's a fansubber, so the person doing it is doing it in their free time(for free). It won't be automatic like when the shows pay people to subtitle and it's out the next day. Their site is linked in the comments here, that's where it will be when it's available.

Just an FYI for anyone wanting to watch this, I could only find 11 out of 12 episodes with english subs. I watched the last episode without subs and was still able to follow along without knowing exactly what they were saying.

The translations are a little bit confusing, but I think they mean that they both are the eldest siblings in their respective families. She is the eldest in her family and worked hard for them. He is the eldest in his family and is spoiled.

I think the best way to put that, is that he shares some of the physical characteristics one might see in someone with Down's Syndrome, but I don't think he has it.

Actually I remember the lazy susan scene because I remember how that reminded me of trying to find interesting ways to film scenes of people talking, it was creative, taking something they already had and probably used all the time to make their shot more interesting. I knew someone who used a skateboard under a desk to film a scene of a girl talking on the phone, and pulling it side to side with a string. That's kind of the feeling I got with this movie that they didn't have any money but they did have a camera so they had to find ways to get around the fact that they didn't really have anything, but still wanted to make the movie. I watch a lot of low budget movies and usually it is either them trying to like make a popular movie but worse(or a popular genre but worse), or it's something personal that they want to say, and this movie was very much the latter. It felt like they were coming from a place where they were trying to tell a personal story but they didn't have what you normally would to make the movie and they made do with what they had. There is a certain charm to movies like this that sort of makes you want to root for them.

The wedding was a bit optimistic (marrying the first person you ever dated), but I think I gravitate towards overly happy endings in movies, so I liked it. And even though they did talk about some serious things in the movie (like how same sex couples are treated in Japan) I don't remember it ever getting too dark, it was optimistic about the future, and so in that way the ending kind of makes sense with the overall message of the movie. I think I remember that the main character's crush came out to him at the end and the main character said he's moved on, which I really liked because SO many movies would go for the trope that 'well obviously that's his first crush so therefore they should be together forever.' So optimistic, but also a bit different than what the standard movie might do.

Someone commented something similar on my review so I'm just going to copy paste part of my response here: {that part of the review was about the awkward acting, I said" The acting wasn't very good but they didn't seem to be any really professional actors in the bunch so it was more them doing the best they could." I find when actors are bad, intimate scenes can be even more awkward and when any scene gets too awkward for me I fast forward. There are plenty of dramas that I've seen where they just mush their faces together and not actually kiss, I find those just as awkward and fast forward through those too. One of my favorite dramas Woody Sambo has the main character trying to be cool in one of the first episodes and he kisses a girl on his tv show, every time I rewatch the show I always fast forward through that moment because it's just too awkward for me (there's also the first kiss the two leads have, I usually fast forward through that one too).}

I generally don't watch BL because I don't like that the stories are more about straight fantasies than actual real gay relationships. I do watch a lot of LGBT+ movies, but most of them are not asian. I don't know how to say this without sounding weird, but I've seen plenty of same sex movies (of any gender) rated anywhere from G to R and I don't fast forward through those sex scenes (or kissing/ intimate scenes), just the ones here because they were awkwardly acted. I would, and do, fast forward through awkwardly acted straight sex scenes too.

It's been 6 years since I watched this movie so my memory may not be the best, but that part of the review was about the awkward acting, I said" The acting wasn't very good but they didn't seem to be any really professional actors in the bunch so it was more them doing the best they could." I find when actors are bad, intimate scenes can be even more awkward and when any scene gets too awkward for me I fast forward. There are plenty of dramas that I've seen where they just mush their faces together and not actually kiss, I find those just as awkward and fast forward through those too. One of my favorite dramas Woody Sambo has the main character trying to be cool in one of the first episodes and he kisses a girl on his tv show, every time I rewatch the show I always fast forward through that moment because it's just too awkward for me (there's also the first kiss the two leads have, I usually fast forward through that one too).
You say that you thought they were well acted and you have every right to your opinion, but my opinion is that I just don't think that anyone in the movie was a really good actor(at least during the filming of the movie they may have done better acting in different films before or since but I'm just basing my opinion on this film). I remember specifically during, I think an opening scene, one of the actors staring at the camera as he fumbles through his lines. Again it's been a few years but that moment sits with me because it was so bad/ awkward for the actor to do that. I like the story of the movie, the overall message which was positive, I liked that this movie had a brighter lighter message, but I think it lacked in execution. The acting just wasn't the best part of the film in my opinion.

It's crazy to think of an adult being punished for something that they did as a literal child. Add to that a lot of new studies are showing that children who bully are likely to be victims of some form of childhood abuse, it's not such a black and white issue.

I would have given this a higher rating but the CONSTANT flashbacks at the end were killing me. How many times do they have to show an old guy in a park giving away candy to kids only to follow one home (and this is supposed to be a nice memory and not super creepy)?

I think that all of these should have an asterisk next to them, we hate to see them badly written, but when there is amazing writing and acting I don't think any of these would bother me. Like for number one, I hate a doormat, but if it's written well and the character has a reason for being like that, and they change and you really get to see their development throughout the series, I like that.

I think this is interesting, because there are some reasons people say they will not get into J-Dramas that are just plain unfair, and some that maybe more about taste levels. I agree anything to do with production value or how an actor looks are unfair. There are plenty of ways of telling a story, and even though visuals are important they shouldn't be everything. As long as something is conveyed successfully that's really all that should matter.

That being said the one thing that I personally find I don't like about J-Dramas is the comedy. I'm not saying the comedy is bad, there is obviously an audience for it, but personally I just don't like it. For me there is the broadest type of slapstick, like The Marx Brothers, which is funny in how out of reality it is and how much over the top it can be. There's also 'camp' type humor which is whether on purpose or accidentally being so bad it goes into being hilarious, like The Room. But, again this is just limited to the Japanese comedies I've seen, the comedy in J-Dramas falls somewhere in between. It's not broad enough, or like slapstick, or even campy; it falls somewhere else. I hear the joke they are trying to make, but it just isn't funny to me. It's just a little too much like 'live action anime.' The reason comedy anime works is because it is a cartoon, anything can happen; but when you try and have a real person give a similar performance it just doesn't work. It feels like it just goes into this fake thing, where the actor is trying to reach this anime level, but can never fully get there.

Of course I still give J-Dramas a try, and if I see one that is really interesting I'll always give it a shot. BUT the majority of what I watch has at least some comedy in it, so it's hard for me to get completely into J-Dramas.

I do hope that people will get past how J-Dramas look, and look at the plot to see if they want to watch.