Rai in his timeline lived like a side character under the shadow of his talented younger sibling. The frustration from his incompetence was eating away Rai until he teleported into the Heian Era or more specifically in the story of Genji. A not so uncommon build-up, true. But the filmmaker took the opportunity here to throw us into the Genji tale from a different side. Rai starts living in this time period as Raimei, a seer for Kokiden Nyogo, the first wife of emperor Kiritsubo. In Genji Monogatari, Kokiden is portrayed as a villainous woman, who plots against Genji to ensure his own son Suzaku gets the throne. With our main character Raimei by her side, the movie shows a different side of Kokiden. A mother and a woman with strong conviction and love for her son. Her characteristics rub off on Rai and we see some character development. It's alright to be not the chosen one but possible to This is what impressed me most about the movie.
I don't have much to say about the acting of the casts because I can't tell the difference between bad or good acting unless they are too obvious.
For whatever reason, the comedy tag is in this movie. there wasn't much comedy and one shouldn't expect one since the original Genji Monogatari is rather dark, full of complex love, hate, taboo relationship, and tragedy. There are a couple of Genji Monogatari movies, and my suggestion will be to watch one first.
*btw, the song Raimei was singing to Rinko at 65 minutes, is "Cherry(チェリー)" by Spitz's(スピッツ). Just saying, because they're my favorite band.
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Not good movie but not bad either
Even this movie so many plot hole in here and there (a bit confused too), but for me this is still enjoyable. I think the reason the main character have time traveled because for his own good who always blame everyone and can't accept himself '-'I really love Miyoshi Ayaka's looks in this movie! She has an elegance aura, her character is straightforward, know what she's doing, and one of the reasons make the main character (Ito Kentaro) changes prespective about himself.
For the romance maybe not too much because the main story isn't only focus there, but just see Rai - Rinko I know they're really love each others. And I'm glad they met again in the present time while holding the paper depicted of Kokiden Nyogo's <3 Like the headline, overall this movie it's not bad and not good either but still worth and enjoyable to watch! :D
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