AKA: Hotto Rodo
Genre: Romance, Teen
Origin: Japan
Release date: August 16, 2014
Cast: Nounen Rena, Tosaka Hiroomi, Kimura Yoshino, Suzuki
Ryohei, Taketomi Seika and Ohta Rina.
Miyaichi Kazuki (Nounen
Rena) grew up with an absent minded single mother. Her mother hadn’t shown her
much affection due to her affair with a married man. Craving for her mother’s
attention she shoplifts, but even that doesn’t make her mother give her any
minute of responsiveness. In school Kazuki befriends a girl Eri, rumored to be
a ‘loose’ girl, which furies Kazuki, as Eri has been nothing but good to her.
One evening Eri
takes Kazuki out to meet some bikers, and there she meets Haruyama Hiroshi –
who becomes interested in Kazuki. At first Kazuki is reluctant, but soon finds herself
drawn to him and his world.
At the same time the
bike gang leader is set to be imprisoned, so he decides to give the leader
baton to the most promising biker – in this case Haruyama…
Another movie from a
Japanese variety, guess the promotion works! Haha…
I don’t know if you
can grasp the story, but it really is nice and romantic love story. It has a
lot of the ‘growing-up’ theme enrolled around it, but it doesn’t really weigh
much the overall story. Somehow the leads have a chemistry, which I have a hard
time figuring out. It is not a hot romantic / breath taking romantic chemistry,
but rather this calm and yet youthful love. The actors where quite good, but
then again I never really judge the Japanese actors – especially the ones I
watch for the very first time – in bad or good actors. The adaptation comes
from a manga, but I have never really heard of it, so I didn’t really have
anything to compare it with.
Nevertheless, I found
it interesting and quite adorable, though little bit lacking – just a tiny bit,
but that has something to do with the climax, so not telling hehe…
☆☆☆☆
/ 4 out of 5 stars
♥♥♥♥ / 4 out of 5 hearts
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