[Movie Review: Japanese] Sukida aka I Love You

I grabbed this movie because there's Aoi Miyazaki, she's one of my fav. Japanese actress. This is about the 'unspoken love", the two main characters hardly say "I love You" in words.

The movie was start when Yu (Aoi) always saw Yosuke (Eita) at floodgate bank, He were always there after school to make a music by his guitar and dreamed about having music as his life. Because Yosuke always played the part of the song and Yu always sang it at home that made her sister also sang it. Yu had a crush on Yosuke but unfortunately she found that Yosuke always asked about her sister (who was lost his boyfriend and she was in deep mourning). So she encouraged her to met Yosuke, after meet him she seemed very happy and that made Yu decided to leave her sister to Yosuke.

The tragedy came after her sister was hit by a car when she went to meet Yosuke. and that made Yu was sad, but Yosuke said " Don't blame yourself, Yu" (I think that's very nice of him).
After that accident, Yu never came to floodgate (apparently Yosuke were always waiting for her).

After 17 years, Yosuke (Hidetoshi Nishijima - played Junichiro in Ordinary People!! my favorite Japanese drama ever....hehehe) worked as sound technician and gave up playing guitar. He never met Yu though, until he met drunk woman on the street and saw somebody will took her wallet and he tried not to abandon somebody (like he said, like he did before). When he spoke to the woman he seemed jump to his past and remember all about his life with Yu.

He met Yu (Hiromi Nagasaku) accidentally, Yu was came for amateur guitarist audition at his company. He recognize her because she played his compose song. As had a night talk about past and new life, they know that they still love each other but still hardly to say. Yu decided to let it go but Yosuke finally found her. He wanted to use this second chance to express his feeling to Yu, so he wanted to see her and made his promise to sing his full song to her but he was stabbed by the robber. When he collapsed, he said " why" and cried. Afraid to loose his chance. Yu was still waiting and after long time she knew that Yosuke was at the hospital and finally she could say "I Love You" (Sukida) to him and he said me too.

The movie is slow and the characters hardly speaking but you can only see their gestures and acts. Mostly afternoon or night and make this movie seems really sad or dark.

Some said that Yosuke had a crush on her sister but for me it wasn't crush, maybe he just feel empathy for her after lost her boyfriend (but Yu thought that Yosuke loved her sister, maybe for me "little attention"...hehehe spoiled alert!).

I think this is a good movie but if you don't like slow and sad movie, this is not your choice but why don't you try?