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One Week Friends (Japanese Film Review & Summary)

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Japanese Movie 2017

One Week Friends (Japanese Film Review & Summary) 

 

  • Genre: Romance, School, Youth. Amnesia
  • Release Date: February 2017
  • Origin: Japan
  • Film: 2hrs

 

Cast

  • Kento Yamazaki as Hase Yuki
  • Kawaguchi Haruna as Kaori
  • Haori Takahashi as Saki Yamagishi
  • Takashi Matsuo as Shogo Kiryu
  • Shuhei Uesugi as Hajime Kujo
  • Seika Furuhata as Mayu Kondo

Just finished watching this Japanese movie, which stars the super kawaii Yamazaki Kento and Kawaguchi Haruna. It is a youth romance.

Haruna plays Kaori, a girl so traumatised with previous events in her life that she developed dissociative amnesia, where she has to restart her memory every Monday.  Thus, it was hard to make friends and in the end, she gave up trying and people around her as well.

Kento plays Yuki, a rather innocent boy who is obsessed with drawing and manga.

Their first meeting was somewhat eventful.  Yuki found Kaori’s ID/library card in the library.  He thought she was pretty. He was in the process of smelling the card rather like a perv when Kaori found him. 🙂

It was the start of 2nd year; they found themselves being in the same class.  Yuki tried to make friends with Kaori but she would just decline.

But Yuki is persistent and had the brilliant idea of presenting her with a couple’s diary so she has a reference of who he was and what they had done over the weeks.  This helped a great deal and eventually, they did become friends.

But before their friendship really deepens, Kaori’s past started to catch up.  The boy, Hajime, she liked during middle school transferred to her school and into her class.  He was the source of her trauma.

Their backstory was that Hajime was a popular boy and all the girls loved him. They found out Hajime was into Kaori and they started to shun her.  She was ignored and being talked about at the same time.

She was meeting Hajime one night when a group of girls prevented her.  Kaori run into a car and woke up with amnesia.

Kaori and Hajime did reunite but she has flashes of her friendship with Yuki.  In the end, she chooses to be friends with Yuki.

It was a lovely movie, it has a lot of heart.  Kento is adorable as Yuki. Haruna looks beautifully lost, sad and alone as Kaori.  Highly recommend.

October 2020:  There are rumours that this film will be given a Chinese drama version starring Shen Yue. How fantastically ironic if Hu Yi Tian takes the male lead role?!!! LOL