Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
A fairly delicate movie which sadly does not live up to its manga origin (Ikoku Nikki by Tomoko Yamashita). The performance of Ikoi Hayase is often too on the nose compared to the manga subtle display of emotion and general feeling of melancoly and grief. As a result, some of the movie's top lines borrowed from the manga end up feeling fairly cliché rather than poetic. It does not help that some of the scene choice seems to have been…