Sukida
I’ve had this movie in my laptop for a month now… and I finally managed to finish it. And I must say, I <3 “Sukida”.
A black screen and a female voice narrating: “Yosuke, do you remember? I remember..” starts “Sukida” with the youthful days of the two main characters Yu & Yosuke. Yu, played by Miyazaki Aoi, has a crush on her classmate Yosuke, played by Eita. However, Yosuke seems to have taken an interest in Yu’s older sister, who just recently lost someone whom she loves dearly. Here is where our conflict begins.
“Yosuke worried about my sister. My sister, who smiled more often than before.” Don’t you just love the subtleness of that line? Anyway, the synopsis can be quite misleading.. because the story is much more than a love triangle.. actually it is not really. The scenes of Yu & Yosuke sitting by the floodgate as Yu sits idling by while Yosuke picks on his guitar, are my favorites. The guitar tune is quite lovely by itself.. and I’m disappointed that it wasn’t released into an OST or something similar.
The movie doesn’t have much dialogue and even when it does, it’s quite subtle. But I think there’s where the beauty of this movie lies in… the cinematography is exquisitely beautiful and the actors/actresses performances are superb. I don’t think Sukida is meant for everyone.. Some will find it dull, slow, and meaningless… But some, like me, will remember this movie for a long time…
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