Two youths meet in adolescence, reconnect as adults, and though both have changed drastically, their love still remains.
Cinematography
Static long takes that make silence physically painful.
Acting
Aoi Miyazaki's eyes doing what dialogue refuses.
Score
Suffocating guitar drone by world's end girlfriend.
Director
Hiroshi Ishikawa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film's title is the romanized Japanese for 'I love you'—the phrase characters spend seventeen years failing to say.
Hiroshi Ishikawa emerged from the 1990s Japanese indie scene that rejected melodrama for emotional minimalism; this was his third feature in twelve years.
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