A sweet and pretty woman moves into an apartment complex one day she hears a voice from her air vent asking her to help save her neighbor's life.... the voice tells her he's from the future. At first, she doesn't believe it but eventually agrees to help. In doing so she ends up falling in love with her neighbor.
I gave it an 8/10. If you're in the mood for a "pure" love story this is a good one to watch.
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The atmosphere of this movie is similar with Meet Me @ 1006. Or so the peoples say, thus I watched this movie. But besides that, there's Takahashi Issey and I can't resist not to watch (^_^;) The different tactic in this movie which differentiate it with other time travel movie/drama is that this movie start with the past time, not with the present time, so I don't really feel the time travel atmosphere.After I watch this, in my opinion the things that similar with Meet Me @ 1006 is the mission of male lead to save the female lead, and when the mission complete the merge/the portal/the miracle--or whatever they've named--ended. Sadly, in my opinion this movie is not too strong. Maybe because :
1. The category is movie, they must packed a lot of things in the short time
2. No side story, just romance
3. I put my hope too high because I watched Meet Me @ 1006 before this
But don't worry, the movie still watchable and the story still great. No plot hole and have a detail.
The male and female lead's act is not questionable. They have a good act, even though I didn't get the great chemistry between them in this movie.
My most favorite part is when Shiori and Hirano went to Shiori's college. Their interaction is really natural and heartwarming.
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Actors/Characters
The actors and characters in the movie were great. Takahashi Issei as Hirano Susumu sold they shy guy portray he was giving. I enjoyed seeing him break his shell with Kitamura Shiori and Kawaguchi Haruna is a very talented actress. These two were great in the movie. The rest of the cast did a good job too and seemed like good actors but we didn't see much of them.
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Sweet n´Slow...
This was such a slow paced, but sweet lesson about love, and the obstacles involved in wanting to change the past... Did I, who am used to watching dramas where it takes like 16 hours for people to get together just call a movie slow paced, yes I did... I really did...However slow as it may be it does come with an interesting lesson in connecting the past with the present without to many effects of interesting distractions.
The main coupe is mature, sweet and calm inspire of this very odd situation and time complication they seem to be in. there are a few interesting twist too but nothing really exiting to watch on screen but the story is good so I am sure the novel it was adapted from is better then the movie.
To be clear, the acting was good, the characters were lovable, and the story interesting it just lacks that extra spark and pace one would expect from a movie... So it was good but maybe not so entertaining...
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when the movie started it seemed out of place, nothing happened until this voice (that was obviously Takahashi Issei) tells the fl follow your neighbor, and suddenly there's a swooosh and the real explanation happens.Takahashi Issei really did a great job, he was his sweet usual awkward uwu but still he gave off a great confident smart guy vibes (that's until the climax)
Kawaguchi Haruna was a sweet calm type of fl, she heard a weird request but she didn't mind it until the voice disappears and she wonders "what the heck was that". so she talks to her neighbor and he mentions a time loop theory that honestly was so simple I'm still annoyed at those cheap attempts in TKEM.
but after the cute little dates while they hunt for answers, the self conscious side of Hirano Susumu jumps out and he breaks up with her, then to no ones surprise he realizes he's indeed the voice that saved her.
so they basically have this dramatic breakup, the fl lives her normal life while waiting for her d-day and boom the ml comes like, you were right, it was me and I like you. that was soooo underwhelming
then when she asks "why did your past self save me" he goes with "it was love at 1st sight".. so they never showed that 1st time alteration. sure he liked her, but like he probably witnesses her death and he'd be heartbroken, but why did it take him a year? why did he live in her apartment? how did he even know he could talk to her?
in the 2nd attempt he says "it's a miracle" becasue after changing his own fate he runs back to her house. but what did 1st attempt Hirano Susumu do? did the old landlord know something? I wish they elaborated on that instead.
like the breakup was unnecessary, though he did need a push to change himself, becasue he wallowed in self pity too much. so they could've just said, you follow your path and I'll meet you again when I find my dream like normal mature people ;D
the whole movie kinda felt like 2010s kdrama that I was surprised it came out in 2019, but again the time alteration was nice and the acting was better~
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The time travel theme was okay, a bit confusing at times, but they presented it well enough and it worked with the love story nicely so there was progress and cute moments of the couple. The latter had chemistry and looked adorable together. Especially the girl was pretty good and enjoyable. The twist towards the end was entertaining as well. But, overall, the movie didn't have enough intensity to make it great.
So, overall, six out of ten.
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Not a bad story but confusing. I didn’t like the lead make character very much. He was creepy to me and I didn’t find him endearing. I know he was shy but he had a creeper serial killer vibe and I thought he would end up being the killer mentioned in the story. I found it weird he was using knives and tools to reenact how to use them for a story. The whole story felt like a mess to me. I couldn’t follow it. Probably just me as time travel stories confuse me. The story felt lack lustre The music was fine. Whole thing just was meh... wouldn’t watch ever again. Was this review helpful to you?
There wasn't much science going on in the movie either. Some of the plot points weren't clear. The romance was middling, nothing great.
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