Features the voices of: Marie Iitoyo, Oji Suzuka | Written and Directed by Tomohisa Taguchi
If somebody asked me whether I liked anime, the answer would be a resounding yes! But, the truth is, outside of the amazing films of Studio Ghibli I haven’t watched a whole lot of anime. I’m not a complete novice but I would love to see many more anime movies and shows. And, with a title like The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes, this seemed like a great movie to get on to that.
The tunnel here is the Urashima Tunnel, and the rumour that Kaoru Tono has heard is that the laws of time and space mean nothing there. If you can find it, and walk through it, you’ll find your heart’s desire there, in exchange for a year of your own life.
But what you don’t get...
If somebody asked me whether I liked anime, the answer would be a resounding yes! But, the truth is, outside of the amazing films of Studio Ghibli I haven’t watched a whole lot of anime. I’m not a complete novice but I would love to see many more anime movies and shows. And, with a title like The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes, this seemed like a great movie to get on to that.
The tunnel here is the Urashima Tunnel, and the rumour that Kaoru Tono has heard is that the laws of time and space mean nothing there. If you can find it, and walk through it, you’ll find your heart’s desire there, in exchange for a year of your own life.
But what you don’t get...
- 7/28/2023
- by Alain Elliott
- Nerdly
Two classmates navigate their relationship – along with a magical tunnel where time gets dilated – in Tomohisa Taguchi’s elegant animation
The Planet of the Apes and the waterworld in Interstellar aren’t the only places in cinema where the time dilation phenomenon can be observed. A few metres down the railway track from a smalltown station in Tomohisa Taguchi’s anime romance, downtrodden hero Kaoru (Oji Suzuka) slips down a bank to find a cleft in a rockface; it gives on to the Urashima tunnel, a magical passageway capable of granting your greatest wish. But mere seconds spent in this molten-canopied alley chasing after your heart’s desire equate to hours on the outside; minutes mean years.
Kaoru wants to bring his younger sister, Karen, back to life; his alcoholic father blames him for her death. And he finds an unexpected ally in Anzu (Marie Iitoyo), the new girl in...
The Planet of the Apes and the waterworld in Interstellar aren’t the only places in cinema where the time dilation phenomenon can be observed. A few metres down the railway track from a smalltown station in Tomohisa Taguchi’s anime romance, downtrodden hero Kaoru (Oji Suzuka) slips down a bank to find a cleft in a rockface; it gives on to the Urashima tunnel, a magical passageway capable of granting your greatest wish. But mere seconds spent in this molten-canopied alley chasing after your heart’s desire equate to hours on the outside; minutes mean years.
Kaoru wants to bring his younger sister, Karen, back to life; his alcoholic father blames him for her death. And he finds an unexpected ally in Anzu (Marie Iitoyo), the new girl in...
- 7/10/2023
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
Stars: Marie Iitoyo, Yu Inaba, Shota Sometani | Written and Directed by Hirotaka Adachi
The first film I watched from this year’s Fantasia Festival was a J-Horror sequel in the form of Sadako. My latest viewing is a movie that is heavily influenced by the best crop of J-horror in the late nineties and early two thousands, Stare.
In the same style as those J-Horror movies, we follow a couple of friends who are linked through some gruesome and surprising deaths. People’s eyeballs are exploding from them and autopsies are showing that the victims had heart attacks. But even when the murdered had someone standing right next to them at the point of death, no-one is exactly sure how they are happening. But we join a few main characters who start to investigate the deaths.
Stare wears its obvious influences on its sleeve. There’s no hiding the fact...
The first film I watched from this year’s Fantasia Festival was a J-Horror sequel in the form of Sadako. My latest viewing is a movie that is heavily influenced by the best crop of J-horror in the late nineties and early two thousands, Stare.
In the same style as those J-Horror movies, we follow a couple of friends who are linked through some gruesome and surprising deaths. People’s eyeballs are exploding from them and autopsies are showing that the victims had heart attacks. But even when the murdered had someone standing right next to them at the point of death, no-one is exactly sure how they are happening. But we join a few main characters who start to investigate the deaths.
Stare wears its obvious influences on its sleeve. There’s no hiding the fact...
- 7/22/2019
- by Alain Elliott
- Nerdly
Ever since the release of Hideo Nagata’s landmark effort “Ringu” in 1998, the term ‘J-Horror’ has been bandied about and adopted for numerous films and influenced efforts from other countries until a slight downturn of releases several years ago. Now that it seems that the style is amid a rebirth, the new film from director Hirotaka ‘Otsuichi’ Adachi, ‘Stare,’ aims to help reinvigorate the genre with its North American premiere screening at the 2019 Fantasia International Film Festival
Following several strange deaths, reporter Mizuki Yamamura (Marie Iitoyo) discovers a connection between the victims when her friend is the latest victim. Eventually, she also learns that all of the killed individuals had earlier invoked a sinister spirit known as Shirai-san, which her husband Haruo (Yo Inaba) also gets involved with. Slowly investigating the strange encounters alongside her friend Mamiya (Shota Sometani) a researcher on local folklore, they find themselves cursed by the...
Following several strange deaths, reporter Mizuki Yamamura (Marie Iitoyo) discovers a connection between the victims when her friend is the latest victim. Eventually, she also learns that all of the killed individuals had earlier invoked a sinister spirit known as Shirai-san, which her husband Haruo (Yo Inaba) also gets involved with. Slowly investigating the strange encounters alongside her friend Mamiya (Shota Sometani) a researcher on local folklore, they find themselves cursed by the...
- 7/18/2019
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
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