Tokyo in April is very bright. It is the season when the flowers are blooming and falling. The petals of the cherry blossoms are fluttering like snow outside the window. Yukino Uzuki came to Tokyo, Musashino University. The teacher said that it was a miracle that she was admitted to this university. Only she herself knew how the miracle happened. That was Senior Yamazaki, and he was here.
Every picture in that film is very beautiful, like the youth in our memories. Riding a bicycle, Uzuki Uzuki passed through the clear streets of Tokyo alone, took classes, joined a fishing club, went to the cinema alone to watch "Oda Nobunaga", and went to the Musashino Bookstore, but Yamazaki-senpai was not there, he didn't know her, She is reading a book on a bench by the grass, next to a lingering lover, she comes home alone, makes curry rice, eats alone, and watches TV. She lives alone, but she is not lonely.
She had in her heart the boy who played the guitar in the fields of Hokkaido, because he went to Musashino University, and when he mentioned Musashino's name, his heart would be slightly affected. Sitting on a hillside in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, surrounded by long grass ears swaying in the wind, she opened a book called "Musashino", and the sun jumped on her face.
Is this the memory of Shunji Iwai? In his youth, he must have had such an unforgettable secret love. With the passage of time, all impurities have been filtered out, leaving only a simple and beautiful mood.
"The older you get, the more you yearn for simplicity. I'm in my 30s, and many of the ways in which men and women communicate now are the first time I meet a girl and I think it's good, the second time I go on a date, and the third time I go to a hotel to open a room. When I was in junior high school, I liked a girl, and I would deliberately ignore her. At that time, the relationship had no purpose, and I didn’t think of anything else. When I compare it, I think this way is very boring.” Iwai said this. Junji is 39 years old, with long shawl hair, looking at the world indifferently. I think the male Fujii tree in "Love Letter" is the boy Shunji Iwai. After school, he buckled a paper bag on the head of his favorite girl who was riding a bicycle, and turned over a thick book that no one would borrow behind the curtain of the library. At the back of the book is a sketch of a girl you like.
It is a feeling that can only be remembered with the heart and can never be expressed. There is no desire to possess, no jealousy, suspicion, misunderstanding and explanation, and I wonder if she will give me a look.
Iwai Shunji let Fujii tree die, deep in the mountains in the heavy snow. If alive, he would be like all of us, busy walking around, falling in love, getting married, but there is nothing to keep in my heart. He is dead, but that handsome, cold, emotional young man will always exist, just like the vast snow that covers the sky and the earth, and also covers the memories of Hiroko Watanabe.
Yuzuki Uzuki finally saw Yamazaki-senpai. At the Musashino Bookstore, her panicked eyes couldn't hide her joy. It was pouring rain outside. The world ends at this moment, the simplest first emotion.
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