Rues of Roo

Yuko Takeuchi …. Mio
Shido Nakamura …. Takumi
Akashi Takei …. Yuji

Seriously, movies that dwell upon lovers lost and returning from the dead are not just stupid, but they’re seriously clichéd and overdone.

But if they’re set in a beautiful Japanese rural village with little boy jumping and smiling shouting ‘Oh-haiiii-oooo’ followed by awkward smiles between estranged ex-dead wife and quiet spoken deeply in love husband and a hesitant ‘ohio’, somehow they become wonderfully spiritual artistic.

Hence the story of Mio, the mother and wife, who returns as she promised during the rainy season a year after her unfortunate death to her husband, Takumi, and son, Yuji. A story that starts in a way reminiscent of certain Miyazaki productions of village roads and walks through deep forests, ‘Ima, ai ni yukimasu’ is a story one approaches with certain reservations but leaves with a deep doubt of one’s cynicisms to life. A beautifully crafted story that unravels and in the last 20 minutes or so leaves one reminiscing on the more subtle points of the movie.

Do not watch in parts, do not watch with jocks.

Also known as ‘Be With You’ and apparently there’s some stupid Hollywood plan to release an English version with Jennifer ’13 going on 30’ Garner. Dear Lord….