Very Cool!!!

Really Surprised!

Am I Missing Something?

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Most of the Japanese romance movies I've seen have been pretty good, but this one I just couldn't get into. It's very slow and the characters aren't very good either.I hated the main male lead. He's such a simp, and doesn't seem to think through his actions. He let's people just walk all over him. He's always getting hit and verbally abused by his coworkers.He loses the girl he really liked. Man this guy really ticked me off to watch. Just could not enjoy this movie because of it.

Don't expect it's going to be another superb love story. For me, this movie is just simple. A girl fall in love with boy, the boy also fall in love with the girl, just that they don't have the guts to tell their feeling.Simple as it is, it was brilliantly portrayed by the cast and also by the director. The story divide into chapters, each chapters shows us how the character developed. At the end, I found myself crying with Kishida (Hayato Ichihara) when he read the letter wrote by Aoi Sato(Juri Euno), as Aoi sister, Kana Sato (Yu Aoi)apt his back and said "you're both Baka (Idiot)".From this movie, you'll learn that you need to do what you need to do before it was too late.

"Rainbow Song" is a romance that has no new motif, but it manages to move me just the same. The pace of the movie is slow without much plot, so for impatient viewers, this might not be the best choice. I've noticed that with Japanese romances, most people opt for the junai genre, with two protagonists falling in love, then one of them dies, leaving one person behind sad but optimistic nevertheless, and the story ends up being very "touching" (but of course, cliché and lacking in cinematic creativity). "Rainbow Song" is definitely not that kind of a movie, though it might appear so deceivingly. Here, what's usually the ending in other romances is told first right in the beginning, so there's no surprise in the plot. You should not watch this movie expecting a surprising ending that will make you go "Wow!"; that's not the point of the movie. The point is to take viewers through the relationship of two young people who, like most of us, have their strong and weak points. Through the movie, we watch their relationship develop (or fail to develop for that matter) through carefully constructed details of their time spent together and also apart. The filming is absolutely beautiful - melancholy but very realistic. All of the young actors here did their job very well, particularly Ueno Juri and Aoi Yuu.Bottom line: a subtle movie that will be very touching if you pay attention to the details, the filming, the changes in each character, and not necessarily plot development.

When watching a Comedy/Romance movie, most of the times, you expect it to be witty, sometimes funny about a love story between two hot protagonists. Or when it is Drama/Romance typed, you expect some complications, involving family problems, or the likes.. . But this one is neither of these, it's more like an everyday realistic "romance" that most people must already know.I prefer not saying much more about the film, because i perfectly enjoyed it without having any idea about it, so you better not read any reviews containing spoilers or the likes, if you want to enjoy it to the fullest.The acting was perfect, a little different Aoi Yu and a completely different Juri Ueno. I don't know much about the director's style or other films, but one day i may become his/her fan.a nearly 2 hours film, with a beautiful slow pace that let you be more and more closer to the characters, and feeling like you're one of them. Highly recommended , preferably in a rainy or a snowy day.