“Only one person decides your tomorrow – it’s you.” Very beautiful, deep and vital film. The Japanese have always been able and able to shoot such pictures – filled with atmosphere and depth of feelings. Quite a lot here is conveyed not by words, but by mood - it is this that is the main thing in this film.
“Eternal Connection with the Sea” or “Forever Together: Blue Sea” – as you can see its name – is definitely worth watching for thoughtful people looking not only for entertainment, but for atmospheric movies. What is a dream and how to go to achieve it? What is true friendship and is it interfering with eternal love triangles? This movie answers many questions in its own way, but these feelings are the same everywhere. It’s not a pity spent one and a half hours of time and I think I will return to this film again.
Actress Kasumi Arimura, in many ways, continued in this film her role as a quiet little girl, persistent, purposeful, but ready to give up for the happiness of her beloved - this we have already seen in the magnificent film "Blinded by You" released a couple of months earlier this year, and now here - in "Eternal Connection with the Sea". In my opinion, the actress managed to show her rebirth well, although the filmmakers almost did not pay attention to her relationship with the family - they are talked about somehow casually, and not shown at all, but this is one of the central themes of the film. Her Aoi still turned out not to be faded, but a bright and memorable character, clean and “all the time glowing” (as she was described by the characters of the picture, and I completely agree with them).
Kouta (the hero of Masataka Kubot) is a sluggish and eternally gloomy character, a character who somehow repels and at the same time attracts a certain mystery, which is mentioned only at the very end of the film, I would play this move a little, warm up the intrigue? But that's the director's right. Masahiro Higashide is also familiar to me from the title role of Ko in Unstoppable Youth. I felt sorry for him in this film - a character who tried so hard did a lot of good but was left with nothing. And he's not the only one here. The same goes for Toku, Aoi’s “everlasting friend,” who loves her but sacrifices his own for her happiness. “Not fair!” you say, but who says life is always fair? Don’t expect a fairy tale from Forever Together (although to some extent it is) – this is a life film, philosophical, and at the same time, clean and beautiful, after watching which you want to definitely make the world around us better, and let’s not the sea that our heroes love so much, but others – like us. Kento Yamazaki is familiar to me from the main role of Kagayama in “Bedroom Neighbors” – his Toku, although not as confident a character, is definitely strong in spirit and purposeful. Interestingly, most of the actors from this film got together again in a new project - Death Notes, which is probably worth watching.
10 out of 10