Sky of Love

Starring Yui Aragaki, Haruma Miura, Asami Usada, Karina, Yumi Aso, Joji Takahashi,Yuko Asano, Keisuke Koide

Directed by Natsuki Imai

Genre: Romance I Drama

In Japanese with English subtitles

The Movie:

What makes first loves so memorable and poignant? The Japanese are adept at enacting the sacredness of first loves and Sky of Love is an excellent example of this. Mika (YuiAragaki), an ordinary high school girl falls in love for the first time with Hiro (Haruma Miura), and finds her life turn topsy-turvy in the giddiness of love, romance and sex.A jealous ex-girlfriend of Hiro, Saeki (Asami Usada), hires three thugs to rape Mika, thereby changing Mika's life forever.

The Catch:

Sky of of Love is based on a novel, Koizoro by Mika, circulated to over 11. million readers via a Japanese cell phone network and published In paperback In 2006.

It is also a No. I box office hit in Japan in 2007.

The Japanese box office hit, Sky Of Love, may be essentially may be essentially a tearjerker, but don't let that dampen your mood.

Based on a novel circulated to 11 million readers via a mobile phone network in Japan, this beautifully-shot film traces a romance that blossoms between a female high-schooler (Yui Aragaki) and a secret admirer (Haruma Miura) who calls her on her mobile phone.

To me, the notion of a phone stalker is hardly romantic, but then again, I may not be in the film's target demographic which is likely to include women and teenagers.

Yes, the film is long, but the leads need time to suffer tribulations before grasping the full meaning of love.

By then your heart will melt and you realise the warm fuzzy feeling is what you've paid money to experience.