Secondhand Hearts

I wanted to like this movie. I kept hoping something - ANYTHING - interesting, funny, or even SEMI-amusing would happen beyond the first 5 minutes of this flick. Nope! Every event that did occur was either predictable or dull. There's no resolve to what few conflicts (or potential for conflicts) were presented. I'm still trying to figure out how such a blatant lack of content managed to make it on-screen. What happened? Did they lose the manuscript? Was it incomplete? Poor deliverance of a poorly written script. I refuse to judge the talent of these actors based off of this film alone. Perhaps they were doing exactly as directed. I understand wanting to leave an ending open for interpretation; but you need to develop the movie better if that's the objective. I'm left WTF-ing for the wrong reasons. Seriously. It's not just the ending that's left 'open for interpretation,' the entire film is! In fact, you're best watching it on mute and creating your own plot!

This is a really pretty film! I felt like the plot wasn't in itself very unique, but the acting was well done for a small film like this, and it all looked gorgeous. Plus I cried, so there's that.

Have to say wasn't too impressed...Don't want to give away any spoilers, but let's just say the main guy basically is a dbag, the choices the main characters decide make no sense, and other then the scenery there is really nothing worthwhile. The father is wayy too forceful and honestly only maybe one character is like able. The ending sucks and honestly wayy to depressing for its intended target. And one of the characters is just obnoxious. And the main guy- total idiot and not deserving of anything good...Save yourself the time and watch something better...

I really enjoyed this movie. I thought it was well paced, the characters were well developed given how relatively short the run time was, and the screenplay and the way the characters performed captured the emotional weight of the story in a way that was believable. The ending was great too in a way that honored the characters and relationships.

If it's in any way about Japan, I'll watch it. I can give a film about Japan a 10 while others have panned it, usually for the cinematography alone. The scenes of Japan are bizarrely sped up and the plot is beyond not believable. There is no ending nor is there anything about this move that I can find any redeeming features except that it is short. The cast is terrible with the exception of the older sister. I am writing several screen plays with Japanese themes but this I just don't understand the point and that a group of people got together and agreed that this was something worth making. It's nonsense at best!