POSITIVES
Pleasantly engaging story for a deliberately casually paced three hours film.
Hidetoshi Nishijima is an excellent lead of a fantastic cast that’s filled with multicultural supporting roles. Kudos to Masaki Okada, Tôko Miura, Yoo-rim Park, Dae-Young Jin, Sonia Yuan, and the beautiful Reika Kirishima.
It's about the conversations, the connections and insight that comes from communication. One could describe it all as poetic.
Love the thematic parallels presented in the narrative.
That red Saab 900 Turbo driving through the serene views of Japan is very beautiful to watch.
NEGATIVES
It's a three hours movie. Hope you're prepared for that.
Slow burn of a story filled with tons of monologues. Not for everybody.
The lack of exciting conflicts also might not be for everybody's taste in stories.
There's a plot reveal that while I understand gives a perfectly good reason for including it, I still just didn't care for it at all.
Honestly, I personally wouldn't watch the play that's presented in the movie, and it's a significant element of the narrative.
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