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Genre: Romance, Drama
Starring:
* Yui Aragaki as Mika
* Haruma Miura as Hiro
* Yuko Asano as Mika's mother
* Yosuke Asari as Nozomu
* Keisuke Koide as Yu
* Asami Usuda as Saki
* Yumi Asou
* Karina
* Erina Matsui
* Ryuji Yamamoto
Release year: 2008
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English
SYNOPSIS
Based on a cell-phone novel that moved 11 million people to tears, "Sky of Love" is a story about a regular girl's three stormy years in high school. While her friends are absorbed about their boyfriends, Mika is clueless about falling in love. She begins receiving phone calls from a boy she doesn't know and is gradually drawn to him. She finally meets him but their happy days soon pass as trouble is brewing on the horizon.
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"Sky Of Love" begins as a story that was published on a website several years ago. It was a tale of a young girl's tempestuous years in high school, unfolding chapters told of love, jealousy, rape, pregnancy, miscarriages, losing your loved ones and having faith. The heart-breaking tale caught on like wildfire in Japan and has touched the hearts of many women. Even more surprising, it was in fact a true story. Its popularity transformed it into a best-selling book, selling 1.3 million copies in just three weeks, and now it has been made into a film, which catapulted to No.1 at the Japanese box-office. It was a phenomenon.
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" Soaring to #1 in the Japanese box office, Sky of Love is actually based on a cell phone novel, and given the proliferation of phones in Japan, there's a ready made audience from this fan base that would flock to the cinemas upon the movie's release of course. It's a high school romance story about a girl, Mika (Yui Aragaki) and her love with punkster Hiro (Haruma Miura), and what a story it is, with teenage sex, rape, pregnancy, and even a miscarriage! And I do confess that I did raise an eyebrow when these incidents come one after another, given that after all, aren't they (the characters) supposed to be underaged to begin with? Not being a prude here and having double standards (like in Juno's case), Sky of Love did load up the pity factor for the audience to feel sorry for the leads. Juno doesn't.
And what's a Japanese contemporary romance story without some form of disease come into play? That probably took the cake and anyone watching the movie could see it coming from a mile away, but we the audience still continue to lap it all up, together with those whispering of sweet nothings, promises to be around forever, etc, and little actions to tug at the heartstrings of loved ones (and the audience's as well). It felt highly manufactured, as if going through an assembly line to incorporate the usual elements when the time came for it, and the usage of cute, symbolic artifacts to represent tokens of love at various stages.
You cannot deny then the wonderful cinematography and whimsical music to put you in the right mood for love, though its 120 minute runtime seemed a tad too long in trying to probably incorporate every major plot development in the novel, what with the introduction of potential love rivals. Yui Aragaki and Haruma Miura with his dyed-white hair seem quite mature to be playing your high school sweethearts, but there's a certain saccharine sweet chemistry between them that would make them your instantly identifiable, and likable characters.
Like I mentioned, there are plenty to frown upon, perhaps even laugh at during the first 20 minutes or so, because of the implausibility of having the most wretched of events befall Mika, and before you begin to wonder why the adults (families on both ends) refuse to take proper action, and the total absence of authority figures to allow the children to take matters into their own hands. Then again, this is a romance movie, not a cop drama, so some suspension of belief is required. Strictly for those who require their regular dose of the usual J-romance chick flicks. "
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Source: anutshellreview
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