Hinata no Aoshigure

Ziemlich übertrieben und mit unnötigen Klischees – also diesmal "japanischer Klassiker“. Trotzdem hat es wieder eine ordentliche emotionale Tiefe. Ich mochte die Symbolik von Schwänen, wie Tiere, die sich einen Partner fürs Leben aussuchen. Animation und Musik wieder gut. Wenn Hiroyasu Ishida Dinge wie Sturz für Mädchen unter Röcke, Hosenaufnahmen und ähnlichen Mist ausspuckte und sich rein auf Emotionen und die Geschichte konzentrierte und wie man sie präsentiert, damit der Zuschauer sie so intensiv wie möglich erlebt (was nicht bedeutet, alles unnötig zu übertreiben und zu übertreiben, obwohl es wahrscheinlich nicht so sehr darauf ankommt, als Ausdruck von Kinderphantasien), dann würde er mir viel mehr gefallen und mehr als nur 6,2/10 verdienen (30.12.2016)

If you were already impressed by the subject matter of Ishida's first movie, Fumiko no kokuhaku (Fumiko’s Confession), but would like to watch something more serious, you may find your wishes granted with this movie. Once again, Ishida serves up a movie featuring two little schoolboys who blush a lot, go through dramatic emotional outbursts, embarrassing declarations of love, frantically running away from stuff, and flying through the air. However, this time it is much more serious and somewhat more poetic than before. I would say, however, personally that Ishida's poetics again somewhat passed me by. Although the movie is audiovisually well-done, and many might say that in its simplicity it is actually a real beauty to listen to and look at, I simply cannot squeeze more than a slightly better 2 stars out of myself, because the movie would have to appeal to me in some way, and that just did not happen. In the field of short films considerably shorter than 18 minutes, I have seen much more imaginative, interesting, and engaging works that were also free of unnecessary pathos, and yet we do not even have to go very far to find them – see for example Ishida's previous movie Rain Town. However, if, unlike me, you are into expressive outpourings of emotion, screaming, and pathetic scenes, you might like Sonny Boy and Dewdrop Girl. (22.06.2015)