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ACTOR
MahoTsutomu NiwaEtsuko KimataHaruo Hanahara
DIRECTOR
John Williams
SYNOPSICS
Ichiban utsukushî natsu (2001) is a Japanese movie. John Williams has directed this movie. Maho,Tsutomu Niwa,Etsuko Kimata,Haruo Hanahara are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2001. Ichiban utsukushî natsu (2001) is considered one of the best Drama movie in India and around the world.
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Ichiban utsukushî natsu (2001) Reviews
A truly beautiful, but unusual Japanese movie
Firefly Dreams is a movie about the friendship between a young teenage girl and an old Lady who she visits in her summer holidays. Naomi is a spoiled brat and send by her father to the countryside, after her mother runs away. There she works at the restaurant of her aunt and uncle. Close lives also Mrs Koide with whom she used to play when she was a kid. From there the story unfolds. I have to praise almost all aspects of the movie. The plot is well thought and all characters are believable and very interesting even the ones who just appear in a few scenes. The photography is marvellous, the landscape is breathtaking and rounds up the plot very nicely. The aesthetic is very different from recent Japanese movies I saw (e.g. from Kitano). It is violent free and it is set mainly in a rural area. Maybe this is so because the director is English and chose a different approach for portraying Japanese life, but this is just a speculation. The acting is great and for me this is the first time I think I learned something about normal Japanese everyday life through a movie. Surely the development of Naomi, how she grows up - and indeed has to grow up - through friendship and also sorrow, is the driving force of the movie. The movie has a slow pace, so if you are an action-movie fan, don't go. Everybody else: you will not regret it!
Very beautiful movie
This movie sets its story in two opposing contrasts one about urban life and country living, and another about young and old. Yumi, lives a shallow life like many teenage girls living in urban Japan until her father sends her to country side where their relatives live for the summer. She befriends Ms Koide, an old lady who used to be an actress. Removed from the urban life, and seeing the contrast between her who has whole life ahead of herself, and an elderly Ms Koide who has nothing to look forward to in life, Yumi begins to put things into perspective about her own life. This realization comes very gradually, so the movie seems slow, but the story is told in a very beautiful way. Almost all the people living around her in the city is very selfish, people living in the country aren't as privileged, but are more caring. Yumi gets a chance to reassess her life between the two opposing environment. Kind of a coming of age story for an urban girl, but also has message for all of us about what life is all about. Highly recommended.
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Firefly Dreams is basically a nice story about returning to traditional values in the face of the ugliness and shallowness of urban life. Packed off to relatives in the countryside by her parents, a young woman develops a variety of friendships - in particular one with an elderly woman who, it seems, has had an interesting past - and discovers herself in the process. What sets this film apart from others in the genre is the degree of understatement that pervades it. Events occur off camera and connections between events are made, but there is refreshingly little explication, leaving viewers to think for themselves. I would not call Firefly Dreams a masterpiece; the story is fairly predictable and simplistic, the characters are pretty generic, and the cinematography is unchallenging. But it is a nice film and leaves some tantalizing questions to mull over even as you return the DVD to the store.
A city girl learns important things in countryside
A young girl, Naomi is a typical bad girl of city. One day, she gets to go to her relative's home in countryside. Then she comes to take care of an old woman, Ms. Koide. Naomi is under 20 years old, so she must not drink or smoke but Ms. Koide does not blame her. Therefore she can behave as she is in front of Ms. Koide. Naomi comes to learn many things through the life with her. This is not only a story of one girl's growing but also an old woman's last story. The scene of Japan's countryside is also beautiful. You may get a good feeling through this movie.
beautiful
Firefly Dreams is a film shoot by a foreign filmmaker, but it was full of Japaneseness. The story is about the interaction between a high school girl Naomi and senior woman Ms. Koide. Naomi is a rough-and-tumble girl, smokes and drinks, and often skips school. One day, her father suggests staying in the countryside during the summer. She is very reluctant but accepts. At there, she meets Ms. Koide who is over 80 years and having dementia. She gradually enjoys her life in the countryside but gets a call telling that her father is dead. After a while, she is told that her mother is going to get married again, and gets the news that Ms. Koide is in danger, and then died. At first, she thinks that living with relatives in the countryside is very troublesome, but she gains, learns, enjoys a lot. I lliked this fim because the suffering of Japanese teenagers at that time is beautifully depicted. However, the ending was open so that some people might think the way of end the story is a little bit vague.