Why Are You Here?

Finally after 1 month, 4 weeks, 30 days in out of duty, we are going to have our standby this coming week. Looking forward to taking a well deserved break as well as clearing the off days I accumulated to gain the luxury of waking up late in the morning instead of the usual routine. As a reward to myself, I rented “Be with You” and sorry Eugene, I didn't cry as what you did as I watch the story unfold alone. Haha. But the storyline was nice and it always makes a cynic like me to wonder whether the magical word “True Love” actually exists on this world at all. I have no answer to that…Do you?

Movie Review:

Be With You (Ima, Ai ni Yukimasu) shot to the top of the Japanese movie charts attracting no less than 3.8 million viewers and finally turned into one of the most seen movies of the year 2004. The emotional silver screen treat was brought to life by no one else than Doi Nobuhiro, the skilled director of the blockbuster TV series Good Luck!! and Beautiful Life that became the most popular Japanese drama of the 90's. Japan's no. 1 actress, the charming Takeuchi Yuko (The Ring, Yomigaeri Resurrection) portrays the tragically deceased Mio. Her husband Takumi (Nakamura Shidou) and his 6-year old son Yuji (Takei Akashi) try to make the best out of this unfortunate circumstance living each day in silent remembrance of the beautiful days they cherished together with Mio as they desperately cling on to her final words, a promise that she will return on a rainy day. Exactly one year after Mio left them Yuji and his father observe a strangely familiar woman walking out from the pouring rain...

A very beautiful story indeed. Pity I can only watch it once.

Rating: 7/10

posted by Immortali @ 6:47 am