Kimi wa Tsukiyo ni Hikarikagayaku (2019)

Kimi wa Tsukiyo ni Hikarikagayaku: Directed by Shô Tsukikawa. With Takumi Kitamura, Mei Nagano, Kyoko Hasegawa, Tomoko Ikuta. Takuya Okada is a high school student. He visits his classmate Mamizu Watarase in the hospital. Mamizu suffers from the mysterious ailment “Luminescence disease.” People who have the disease show a faint sparkle under the moonlight and the sparkle gets brighter as their death gets closer. Mamizu is not allowed out of the hospital and she will not live long enough to become an adult. Takuya offers to help her carry out her wishes before she passes away. He also tells her how he feels about her, but Mamizu’s death is approaching.

“The movie didnu0026#39;t really do it for me. It reveals from the beginning that the girlu0026#39;s disease is incurable, so you pretty much know the romance isnu0026#39;t going anywhere. The guy helping her to check off her bucket list by doing all the things she has always wanted to do in her stead is kind of cute and there are some other nice and emotional moments, but I also felt bored a lot and never really cared much for the girl. Perhaps because there is something viscerally unnatural and off-putting about someone healthy and fertile investing his love in someone with no future. It would have been better if their relationship remained strictly a compagnionship and they made his girlfriend someone else.”