Turns out it is indeed the room where they stayed five years before, on a vacation far less loaded with emotional baggage, and that’s no accident. Sullen and withdrawn, Sano is determined to ret...
”) Miyata’s attempts to draw him into the present, with new-agey wellness seminars and a potential double date with two winsome young women, are well-meant but ill-judged. (The title stems...
Yet we can feel the film’s burdened mood lifting, its lungs filling again with salty air, even before we identify Nagi — gangly and camera-toting and button-cute, with a Jesus Loves You T-...
All the while, Bobby Darin’s swing standard “Beyond the Sea” — a song that matches the film’s odd balance of sorrow and insouciance — forges connections between its...