An emotionally vulnerable teenaged boy (Miyu Irino) skips class when it rains to sketch in a gazebo in the botanical garden. An emotionally fragile woman (Kana Hanazawa) shares the gazebo while she works through a major depressive episode. The boy develops a crush. The woman encourages it.
I've never been to Japan and I don't know how their culture works with regard to age gaps in relationships but a 15-year-old is a fucking child and no 29-year-old should be interested in pursuing them. And before anyone jumps in with "oh, but they're just friends and kindred souls and she didn't do anything," please note that she fucking lies to her boss and says she's been meeting with an old lady. If she didn't think there was something wrong with the relationship, she wouldn't have lied about it.
That being said, holy Cheezit Christ is there a bullying problem in Japanese schools. There are waaaaay too many movies and shows about kids being bullied to suicide in East Asian countries. (In America, you just get shot so it's not like we have room to throw shade.)
This is the kind of shit that makes me grateful to just have cats. I mean, they're still bullies but they weigh 8 lbs and don't have opposable thumbs, so they're manageable.
This is on Criterion Channel but I say skip it and watch something else.
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