A girl moves from Hokkaido in the north to attend university in Tokyo. Shigatsu Monogatari shows how difficult this can be in terms of meeting new friends, socialize with the neighbours and a Shunji Iwai topic, love.
This is slow moving, some times very real-like. Some times it gets too slow, and at 67 minutes running time that is not too good. I have respect for the director, but what I have seen from him up until now has been not more than promising. It sometimes has the realism of Ozu, but not his actors or visuals. That said, its still a great movie. The sequence with the red umbrella was beautiful.
This is slow moving, some times very real-like. Some times it gets too slow, and at 67 minutes running time that is not too good. I have respect for the director, but what I have seen from him up until now has been not more than promising. It sometimes has the realism of Ozu, but not his actors or visuals. That said, its still a great movie. The sequence with the red umbrella was beautiful.