I watched this film in the summer of 2019, just when a typhoon came. My family lives in a coastal city in Zhejiang and the typhoon was quite severe at that time. The news coverage is also quite tragic. I vaguely remember that I opened this film in the rain, and it was actually the same scene as in the play, and the sense of substitution was too strong. At the beginning of the film, the two were leaning on each other, watching the news report, and it was bleak and heavy rain outside the window. Next is the story of the acquaintance of the male protagonist Sakutaro and the female protagonist. Aji is beautiful, has a good figure and is a scholar. Just like a campus goddess. Her warm and beautiful personality infected Sakutaro. The two went through a lot together, writing articles for the radio station to get tapes. Let's go to the photography grandpa to understand the poignant love with the deceased teacher. Go to the island to play together. However, there are many places in the film that reveal sadness. Sakutaro told a small lie to get the tape, saying that his good friend had leukemia, but in the end the heroine really had leukemia. The poignant love between the grandfather and the teacher cannot end well in the times. Sakutaro's later wife Ritsuko was hit by a car while delivering a letter for them. The series of accidents is really disturbing.
In the play, the male protagonist constantly opens up the dusty memories, and burst into tears in the same scene. The deceased has passed away, and the living should live well.
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