Hidamari no Kanojo
So the teaser trailer is out and so are all the lovey-dovey pics of J and Juri-chan. Are you getting excited about this movie yet? :)
The plot description goes:
"A new salesman named Kosuke Okuda happens to meet Mao Watarai, a friend from his middle school days. Back then, Mao was called stupid and bullied, but now she is an attractive woman. Kosuke and Mao fall in love and decide to marry, but Mao has a secret…"
another says:
"The film is based on a romance novel by Osamu Koshigaya which has consistently received glowing reviews from young female readers.
Jun Matsumoto plays Kosuke, a rookie ad exec who is reunited with former childhood friend Mao (Juri Ueno) at a client meeting 10 years after they last saw each other in junior high school. Mao has gone through a dramatic transformation from the girl who was bullied and called the “class idiot” in school to an attractive and intelligent young woman.
As the teaser shows, the two start spending lots of time together and become a couple. However, Mao is keeping an incredible secret…"
Don't you just hate when they end plot descriptions with "secret..."???? Aaaaargghhh it was driving me crazy! Especially since I would have to wait until October to find out what it was, since I don't have a sufficient Japanese knowledge to read the novel. :(
Well, that won't do - I thought and started googling for spoilers. There must be some spoilers out there - I thought, while I searched for keywords in English, French, Hungarian.... to no avail.
Then I turned to Japanese, and I found the spoiler! I thought I'd share it here in English, in case you're dying to know like me, but please take it with a grain of salt, because I mainly used google translator for interpreting the Japanese I found and I am not sure how accurate the translation is, thought I'm pretty sure this is the answer, since it came up in many search results. ^^
!!!!!SPOILER ALERT!!!!!
Mao is actually a cat!
well, that was the main part, which I understood for sure.
as for the why and how, that part is not very clear, but hey, at least it still gives us a reason to watch the movie! (besides the actors :))
on one Japanese site I interpreted the story as something like Mao used to be the cat of Kosuke, then disappeared, and then Mao appeared in junior high. then there's something about how cats can only take up a human form for 12 years or something (source 3), so the two will have to part at the end... I guess that would give them one year together, if we count 1 junior high school year + 10 years, right?
Anyway, now that I read the spoiler to the novel, I can still say I'm looking forward to the movie! :)
source: 1, 2, 3
The plot description goes:
"A new salesman named Kosuke Okuda happens to meet Mao Watarai, a friend from his middle school days. Back then, Mao was called stupid and bullied, but now she is an attractive woman. Kosuke and Mao fall in love and decide to marry, but Mao has a secret…"
another says:
"The film is based on a romance novel by Osamu Koshigaya which has consistently received glowing reviews from young female readers.
Jun Matsumoto plays Kosuke, a rookie ad exec who is reunited with former childhood friend Mao (Juri Ueno) at a client meeting 10 years after they last saw each other in junior high school. Mao has gone through a dramatic transformation from the girl who was bullied and called the “class idiot” in school to an attractive and intelligent young woman.
As the teaser shows, the two start spending lots of time together and become a couple. However, Mao is keeping an incredible secret…"
Don't you just hate when they end plot descriptions with "secret..."???? Aaaaargghhh it was driving me crazy! Especially since I would have to wait until October to find out what it was, since I don't have a sufficient Japanese knowledge to read the novel. :(
Well, that won't do - I thought and started googling for spoilers. There must be some spoilers out there - I thought, while I searched for keywords in English, French, Hungarian.... to no avail.
Then I turned to Japanese, and I found the spoiler! I thought I'd share it here in English, in case you're dying to know like me, but please take it with a grain of salt, because I mainly used google translator for interpreting the Japanese I found and I am not sure how accurate the translation is, thought I'm pretty sure this is the answer, since it came up in many search results. ^^
!!!!!SPOILER ALERT!!!!!
Mao is actually a cat!
well, that was the main part, which I understood for sure.
as for the why and how, that part is not very clear, but hey, at least it still gives us a reason to watch the movie! (besides the actors :))
on one Japanese site I interpreted the story as something like Mao used to be the cat of Kosuke, then disappeared, and then Mao appeared in junior high. then there's something about how cats can only take up a human form for 12 years or something (source 3), so the two will have to part at the end... I guess that would give them one year together, if we count 1 junior high school year + 10 years, right?
Anyway, now that I read the spoiler to the novel, I can still say I'm looking forward to the movie! :)
source: 1, 2, 3