Orenji

This film starts really slow, and to be honest the 2 main actors didn't act really naturally. I don't know why the actress got the "Rookie of the year" price in 2015 though. And all this group of friends didn't show their chemistry of friendship or something like that. Besides the others 4 supporting actors were really faint. ---------- But in the opposite, there're some great shots (it got edited a little bit too much though, still great) and some emotional scenes. With this plot, i think the director could do better. ---------- In the end, 6/10 points for me because i am a fan of coming of age films ( moreover i am fan of Erina Mano, that plays a huge part too :D ). Recommend for who has really much time and got deep into those coming of age films like me, and if you're not? Get some other great movies and skip this one! --------- Sorry for my bad English and this is my first review both in my mother tongue and in English.

I haven't read the manga, but tried to watch the anime, and I just couldn't. This neverending drama gave me an overdose of exagerated sentimentalism, and most characters were annoying as hell, especially Naho. The only thing I liked about the anime was the opening.

Fortunately, and this is rare enough to underline it, the live-action movie shines where the anime failed. What first strikes is the music. Despite the redundancy of the main theme and its variation during the whole movie, I thought that the soundtrack was beautiful and almost moved me to tears.

Secondly, I was highly surprised by the acting. I'm just blaming the writers who wanted to stick to the manga/anime characters a bit too much, which turns some emotional moments to almost auto-parody. But let's say that it just brings a smile in the middle of tears, for a final heartwarming sensation.

Some reviewers blame the scenes from the anime/manga that were missing in the movie. Well, the movie is 140min - long already, and I think it gets the true essence of the story. Actually, I think it's even better not to make it last too long, as the anime quickly got from "cute" to "unbearable" because of unnecessary lenghts. Plus, this is a teen drama, some concessions need to be done.

Visually, "Orange" impresses sometimes. Maybe too saturated at the end, with visible special effects, but overall they did a great job.

Honestly, the movie had so many important and key parts missing. I've read the manga and even the anime has the same key parts compared to this live action movie. If you just want to watch a Japanese romance movie, don't care about the anime and actual story, then watch it. But the manga and anime was much better, more interesting with all the key events.

This movie is very well directed, although the script lacks clarity in some areas. The actors did their job very well.

It shows the importance of having good and honest friends.

Overall, It is a beautiful, heartwarming movie.

I watched this movie because of the main two characters, naho and kakeru (tao and kento) who are also together in the series 'alice in borderland.'

this movie has a very interesting concept, with the sweetest romance plot ever. The two main characters have such strong chemistry with eachother, as well as the whole friend group.

The end of the movie was definitely sad, to say the least.

Everything in this movie felt very book-accurate, which i always appreciate in movie/show adaptations. The only thing i didn't love was the way that takako's character was watered down on the movie.

Other than that, this is a really great movie filled with romance, angst, and drama-highly reccomended.