Tennen kokekko DVD (ENG SUB)

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Japanese

English / Traditional Chinese / Japanese / off

1 DVD Box Set (NTSC - ALL Region)

Kaho, Masaki Okada, Erisa Yanagi, Shoko Fujimura, Yui Natsukawa & Koichi Sato

2008 Release

Based on a popular Kuramochi Fusako manga, the film follows a small group of students in a remote rural town, casting a gentle, observant eye on their daily lives and growing pains. Though manga adaptations and pure love films have become nearly ubiquitous, Yamashita's unrushed direction and Watanabe Aya's (Maison de Himiko) remarkable screenplay cleanly sidestep the genre cliches, a perfect case of achieving more with less. Embracing the innocence and insecurities of youth with simplicity, clarity, and sensitivity, Tennen Kokekko is a small, genuine, and gracefully rendered film.

Soya (Kaho, Gamera the Brave) is in her second year of junior high, but things are a bit lonely as she is the only student in her grade. In fact, there are only six students in her entire school, all of different grades studying in one classroom. The oldest of the group, Soya has a very close relationship with the other kids, but she can't help feeling lost at times in a tiny school and a quiet town whose population dwindles by the day. Everything changes when a boy from Tokyo, Osawa (Okada Masaki), transfers to her school and, what's more, he's in the same grade as her.