Tada, Kimi wo Aishiteru

Tada, Kimi wo Aishiteru is a 2006 Japanese romance and drama based on a novel. It focuses on the relationship that evolves between a photographer named Makoto, and two of his female university classmates, starring Aoi Miyazaki and Hiroshi Tamaki..

The story begins with Makoto Segawa, a freshman at Meikei University. On the day of his university entrance ceremony, Makoto meets a fresh-faced, quirky girl named Shizuru. Makoto has a complex which causes him to shy away from contact with other people, but she succeeds in getting him to open up to her naturally. All Shizuru wants is to be with Makoto, so she takes up a camera too. The two spend their days together taking photos in the forest behind the campus. However, Makoto has feelings for another student named Miyuki. Shizuru decides that if Makoto likes Miyuki, she wants to like her too. She wants to like everything that he does. One day, she tells Makoto that she wants to take a photo of them kissing in the forest as a present for ‘her birthday’. He obliges for her sake, and they kiss in the forest. -Wiki

I really enjoyed this movie.. The forest is really pretty and I liked her photography.. This movie talked about friendship and opening up to people. It also talked about sacrifice and pursuing one’s dreams. I really liked this movie because it showed human pain and how the characters dealt with it.

The difference between sad Korean movies and sad Japanese movies are... Sad Korean movies are frank, it will make you have a long cry when the sad event happens. But Japanese movies does it in a subtle way. Like they weave it with slight happiness so you don't know whether or not you should be sad and you end up thinking about it for a long time, feeling shit and crying.

Aoi Miyazaki is such a great actress. Love the bittersweetness of the ending.