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Predictable but not in a bad way. Simple and sweet romance
8.5/10 is my rating. This is a 2012 Japanese romance movie that runs 121 minutes.
First I will provide a unique synopsis then review.
Synopsis
Tsubaki Hibino (Emi Takei), is a socially awkward loner. She dresses in very drab, old style clothing, and wears her hairs in braids which is not very fashionable. In complete contrast, Kyota Tsubaki (Tori Matsuzaka) is one of the most sought out, attractive, guys at the high school. Tsubaki is completely surprised when Kyota begins paying attention to her, teasing her incessantly at first but then pursuing her romantically. The more the two interact the more what started as a joke on Kyota’s part starts to become real. Kyota draws Tsubaki out of her shell and Tsubaki makes Kyota look at his life and re-evaluate the shallow relationships he had been pursuing. Can two such dramatically different people make it work in the long term?
Review
This is a very sweet, well-paced coming of age romance. If you are okay with it being a bit aged, it is not a bad offering in the romance genre. The characters are well developed and you can see the progression of their relationship and feelings for each other. It is predictable but not in a bad way. Super popular boy meets not so popular girl and they fall for each other.
I t ends happy and there aren’t any unresolved or outstanding plot points or sub plots. I would recommend it for anyone that is a romance fan as a quick easy watch. I might watch it again if it was on but wouldn’t seek it out to rewatch.
Spoilers
Fro the hair styles and the clothes it is not hard to tell this movie is over a decade old. So, when they criticize main girl for being old fashioned it is like old fashioned criticizing old fashioned from our modern perspective.
The music was not my favorite. Pretty screachy but not so disruptive it made it unwatchable.
There was no solid second couple. There was the sister and her romance with the lead guys’ best friend but given she said he wasn’t really her type, and that she was originally interested in main guy, it wasn’t much of a romance. The best romances usually have more than one couple that forms and this really only had the main couple.
It was a bit odd that the description for the movie said she was really good at doing other’s hair but not her own so I thought that would be a central part of her character throughout the story. But it really wasn’t. It showed her doing her sister’s hair in the beginning, then a few of her classmates’ hair a bit later but that was really it. Then, she goes to work at the hair salon and then it becomes a central thing for her. But that didn’t happen until close to the end. That is why I think a better description of how she was before is that she was focused on studying.
#LoveForBeginners #EmiTakei #ToriMatsuzaka
First I will provide a unique synopsis then review.
Synopsis
Tsubaki Hibino (Emi Takei), is a socially awkward loner. She dresses in very drab, old style clothing, and wears her hairs in braids which is not very fashionable. In complete contrast, Kyota Tsubaki (Tori Matsuzaka) is one of the most sought out, attractive, guys at the high school. Tsubaki is completely surprised when Kyota begins paying attention to her, teasing her incessantly at first but then pursuing her romantically. The more the two interact the more what started as a joke on Kyota’s part starts to become real. Kyota draws Tsubaki out of her shell and Tsubaki makes Kyota look at his life and re-evaluate the shallow relationships he had been pursuing. Can two such dramatically different people make it work in the long term?
Review
This is a very sweet, well-paced coming of age romance. If you are okay with it being a bit aged, it is not a bad offering in the romance genre. The characters are well developed and you can see the progression of their relationship and feelings for each other. It is predictable but not in a bad way. Super popular boy meets not so popular girl and they fall for each other.
I t ends happy and there aren’t any unresolved or outstanding plot points or sub plots. I would recommend it for anyone that is a romance fan as a quick easy watch. I might watch it again if it was on but wouldn’t seek it out to rewatch.
Spoilers
Fro the hair styles and the clothes it is not hard to tell this movie is over a decade old. So, when they criticize main girl for being old fashioned it is like old fashioned criticizing old fashioned from our modern perspective.
The music was not my favorite. Pretty screachy but not so disruptive it made it unwatchable.
There was no solid second couple. There was the sister and her romance with the lead guys’ best friend but given she said he wasn’t really her type, and that she was originally interested in main guy, it wasn’t much of a romance. The best romances usually have more than one couple that forms and this really only had the main couple.
It was a bit odd that the description for the movie said she was really good at doing other’s hair but not her own so I thought that would be a central part of her character throughout the story. But it really wasn’t. It showed her doing her sister’s hair in the beginning, then a few of her classmates’ hair a bit later but that was really it. Then, she goes to work at the hair salon and then it becomes a central thing for her. But that didn’t happen until close to the end. That is why I think a better description of how she was before is that she was focused on studying.
#LoveForBeginners #EmiTakei #ToriMatsuzaka
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