This movie is all about Ikuta Toma's incredible acting. He even manage to portray such a controversial character and make it somehow worth it! That's surely something right!
There are lots of unnecessary scenes with the teens which were undeniably annoying and very poorly portrayed. But the main lead actor, Ikuta toma, nailed it. There were things in between lines. Like Mr. Ito's facial expression. In one time, he was lying but there was deep sadness in his face. Also, he did something which he normally won't do. As for relationship, he maintains a wall where suitors never got a space to enter yet that wall never really existed for Shimada! It was his acting that make it all sense. Even the guy friend of Shimada sensed that the love was mutual in their case. Here, Mr. Ito was workaholic, non-sociable and had some sort of complex in terms of relationship. But his heart melted by Shimada's innocence and he was grateful towards her, also apologetic for not being able to accept her or hurting her. That's why, that controversial relationship never felt wrong! And I'm not exaggerating anything. Mr Ito expressed everything in this tiny movie with his so little screen time and few dialogues! What I'm saying is I am totally knocked down by Ikuta Toma's acting. But the rest is pretty much slow and boring.
