This could've been a great movie (yep, I meant "movie" indeed, you'll see why right away), on par with "The Magic Hour" and such. How? They should've: 1) gotten rid of 4/5 of the dorama (which imho is filled with useless characters - the innkeeper, the onee-san and her husband, the fisherman, the japanese-guy-with-dyed-hair-pretending-to-be-Russian and so on); 2) re-written Aibu Saki's character as something else than this childish, selfish, insufferably spoiled brat; 3) added some scenes from Golden Era movies (either from real movies, like they did in "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid", or if that hadn't been possible, at least with re-shot b/w scenes reminiscent of those old cinematic gems). Unfortunately they didn't do that, and what we're left with here is - once again, as I always point out in my reviews: IMHO - a waste of film (not to mention, an unforgivable waste of Nagase Tomoya's, Koike Eiko's and Fubuki Jun's acting talent!