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8/10
Efficient Tear Jerker
wheatley-2023025 March 2022
I am a bit of a sucker for a weepie and weep I did. This film tells a moving story and finds some unexpected moments of poignancy to add. The actors draw you in to their heart-ending predicament.

If weepies are not your thing you might not fall for this film as I did. Otherwise give it a try.
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8/10
Sweet and Different Love Story
AJ_McAninch25 March 2022
A very sweet but tragic story with the only ending it could have. Still, there is a beauty and tenderness as well: sometimes love stories do not close the way we want them to, but the power of the love remains. And that's the point. The writing is a bit erratic in places, but the actors, especially the leads, do well with the difficult subject.
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7/10
Love Story
svynronin2 June 2023
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While somewhat different than Love Story, the same concept applies. This can also be compared to a Nicholas Sparks movie. There were some artistic moments that helped the movie. The love story followed the cycle of a tree. So it bloomed in Spring than slowly died for winter, (good symbolism). I also enjoyed the characters and their acting. The two main characters do well with what seemed to be a pretty simple script. The photos help tell the story. The photos express the love between the characters and Haruto's journey of self discovery for his love of photography. This is a tear jerker for sure, so if you love a good love story than this is the right movie for you. It's about 30 minutes of joy, and an hour and a half of crying so have plenty of tissues nearby.
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9/10
Heartbreaking. Heartwarming.
Lola-5399925 March 2022
I thought I was prepared emotionally when I decided to see this Japanese film, «Love Like the Falling Petals» in Netflix. The title itself gives a premonition how the plot of the story will evolve. Yet when it ends, it somehow gives a much deeper impact. Yes, it is heartbreaking... and yes, it is heartwarming. It reminds me of the Taiwanese series «More Than Blue». Both revolve around a young couple whose endearing love was brutally hindered by the twist of fate.

One thing for sure though, these two dramas are undoubtly gifted with excellent performances, especially the male leading roles. They are just fantastic actors and actresses!

I still can't get over K and Cream's most unselfish love to each other in «More Than Blue». This time, it is Harutoo and Misaki's.

Feel the happiness and the sadness they feel... and be enchanted how true love can give us pain and satisfaction.
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Powerful emotions with this one
dark-0106830 March 2022
Much better than i was expecting and surprised me a lot.

The story is very sad, but also very beautiful!! Man i was crying a little in some scenes.

The acting is beautiful, congrats to the main couple and everybody else!
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5/10
sweet.
eduardajankovskiduda28 July 2022
Such a sweet movie. Of course it's not that good because doesn't developed the love story, everything went very fast , but the characters have chemistry and they're actually really cute together. I really like the colors and the photograph of the movie, love this kinda of Japanese movies they always pass the feelings and make me feel emocional.
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10/10
It's amazing
nurarakovic8 April 2022
The acting was really good and the plot of this movie was amazing. It's was really worth my 2 hours of the day. I love how they're showing so many different topics.

The fear of running out of time, the feeling not to be good enough, the fear of getting older, the fear that if you're not perfect that you will lose the person you love the most, to hurt the one person you love so they can move on from you even tho you love them so much, and more.

It's amazing how it is connected with the spring and how much you can love a person even tho you just met them! Love like that is precious! And the sad thing about that is that this kind of love is rare nowadays. I hope everyone who hasn't found the one will find them soon. Because everyone deserves to be loved like that. Thank you.
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5/10
Okay romance movie with more potential
KinoHuits26 March 2022
This movie looks so so beautiful, is well acted, and touched me on an emotional level(which not many movies can do).

Yet I can look over the fact that for 45min-1h in the middle, nothing really happens, which bugs me a lot. You could really skip this part and still understand the ending.

The story is also too nonsensical at some points, many random time skips and while sometimes the movie tells you too much, instead of just showing you, at other points it doesn't explain anything.
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9/10
A touching but so sad love story
namnhan200314 April 2022
I was so touched by this film that i cried like a baby at the end of the film. Such a powerful emotional film that i would suggest to anyone to watch it. The film is so good and the actors are quite good if not excellent. I really love this movie. This is one of the Japanese film finest work...
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9/10
Very emotional movie
KatieDuncan4420 February 2023
I liked how the main characters encouraged each other. I liked how they started to enjoy each other's company more and more.

The honest emotions of what happened next and the portrayal of the emotions was very touching and done to really invoke empathy.

It was really surprising to see what happened and how things progressed.

Just seeing how things can happen in life and the way love can unfold is something else.

It's hard to talk about this movie without giving away spoilers.

The movie's end other than the obvious emotions, I like how it drew from nostalgia and appreciating the other person.
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10/10
One of my favorites!!
rngbsx30 March 2024
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To begin, it's just perfect it's no to dramatic in the romantic terms and not to slow, the female protagonist didn't have a bad personality and upfront her problems well, it's more sad than dramatic but you really feel the emotions that they have, and the male protagonist it's really nice, he didn't give up and truly loved her, overall really nice not boring, not cringe in the romantic parts and well amazing, I really recommend if you like romance even if it's kinda sad it's worth every second, I think it's one of the best romance movies I've ever seen and hootaru.... :,) I wish I meet someone like him one day I'm truly amazed.
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