Sweet Rain (Accuracy of Death), Japan 2008
Directed by Kakehi Masaya, starring Takeshi Kaneshiro, Manami Konishi, Fuji Sumiko
Rain brings the smell of death along, with a fresh mint of loneliness that seeps right through your hair. When death walks through your door, would you stare him right at his charming face or would you let him just take you away? Are you ready for your own fate by then? I guess this is a question remained unable to be answered accurately until you are faced with it...at least for me, it is...for now. We are connected, in a strange way with others in life, be it in a different time, or a separate space in time. Beautiful it may seem, a heart that is broken is only left shattered like the waves that break the shore. A twist of fate turns a depressed and hopeless girl into a new person who believes she deserves more than just having death following her wherever she goes. She lives life to its fullest from there onwards and the next time she meets DEATH again, she is contented. A dog that communicates, a sky that would not stop raining, the long walk between different space and time, all made the film more surreal yet very real at the same time. Japanese music almost ALWAYS comes in at the right time, the right place. A poetic look at a grim subject in life. Characters intertwine, hope survives. It's a beautiful clear day after all.
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