IMA, AI NI YUKIMASU

Purposely took leave to sent my father off to China and took the chance to watch the movie Ima, ai ni yukimasu or "Be With You" last wednesday with QR. 1st time in many many years I watched a Love story movie... Hmmm... Anywayz the whole cinema only gt three guys... Mi, QR and anther unknown guy... The rest are mostly japanese women in their 30s and 40s... Feels kind of weird cos watchin with QR and nt some gal?... MmmmmM.. U all noe the reason lah. Back to the movie part.

The movie starts with a quaint little house nestled in the most idyllically beautiful, lush green countryside, where a shopkeeper of a cake shop delivers a birthday cake to a young man Yuji, who is making breakfast. We are then taken back to the time when Yuji is six, a year after he has lost his mother Mio through illness and is living a life of mutual support and love with his father Taku. Before her death, however, Mio promised her husband and son that she would come back after a year and stay with them during the rainy season.


When the rain starts, Taku and Yuji find in the woods a woman looking exactly like Mio, who has apparently lost her memory completely. The father and son naturally have no problem believing that it is Mio coming back from heaven, and bring her home. Although in a way she is still a stranger, she seems to accept that she is Mio, and asks Taku to tell her the story of how they first met and fell in love. Through that process, they fall in love a second time (I am assuming at this point that she is indeed Mio). As we share the joy of the family reunited as well as the love story of young Taku and Mio through the flash back, the six-week rainy season is mercilessly coming closer and closer to the end.

Want to know more? Watch the movie? I can tell you this movie is not a typical love story. The story is special and the ending is unpredictable. Pacing wise it is quite well paced unlike Korean Love stories...Ughh.. same type of story and super slow paced... I sincerly recommend you to watch this movie... "Be With You" realli touched the heart of the cold blooded me...

I rate this movie a 4.5/5 cos of the great story and superb acting by the cast.

Love Yuko Takeuchi!!

Guess I have nt wasted my leave ^^!

Lastly I have decided to include the Translation for the theme song



ORANGE RANGE - 花

Amidst us scattering like flower petals
It was a dream-like miracle that I met you
We love each other, we fight
We climb over all sorts of walls together
If I'm reborn, I'll be a flower by your side

I wonder if the sun will always be right overhead?
I wonder if I'll always be able to protect you? Your expressions, laughing and crying
Anyway, if everything turns to nothing, I'll be even more thankful for us having met
That day, that time, the tracks left at that place
Will again give birth to new tracks

I become strong by loving, I make it through by believing
The things that you left behind even now glitter in my heart, not having disappeared
I think happily of when we met, I regained my smile
Embracing the overflowing feelings of "thanks", I move forward

Amidst us scattering like flower petals
It was a dream-like miracle that I met you
We love each other, we fight
We climb over all sorts of walls together
If I'm reborn, I want to be with you

I'm going to scatter like flower petals
I'll accept everything in this world
The thing that you left me
Is a real treasure called "now"
So living with all my might, I'll be a flower

Why do flowers wither?
Why do birds fly?
Why does the wind blow?
Why does the moon light up?

Why am I here?
Why are you here?
Why did I meet you?
Meeting you, that was fate

Amidst us scattering like flower petals
It was a dream-like miracle that I met you
We love each other, we fight
We climb over all sorts of walls together
If I'm reborn, I want to be with you

I'm going to scatter like flower petals
I'll accept everything in this world
The thing that you left me
Is a real treasure called "now"
So living with all my might, I'll be a flower

After the rain, a rainbow hangs in the sky, light is born in the mountain air
Right here, I become aware
Of a firm and important thing called "loving"
Can I still walk on? I can see it
My "feelings", pass through time, and echo into eternity
Your happiness, your pain, your everything
Well, bloom then in full, more and more and more