The first-person protagonist is a 27-year-old freelance writer who returns to her hometown from Tokyo, and she gets together with high school friend Satsuki and cameraman Suga to see Shiina, who they all admired in high school. Along the way, vivid memories from high school replay in the protagonist's mind.
Acting
Ai Hashimoto's thousand-yard stare speaks entire unsent texts.
Direction
Hiroki treats memory like unreliable footage—grainy, gorgeous, gone.
Director
Ryuichi Hiroki
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'I' and 'Me' casting (Hashimoto/Kadowaki) was deliberate—director Hiroki wanted audiences constantly uncertain whose subjectivity we're trapped in.
Released during Japan's 'herbivore men' discourse, the film quietly asks why women's ambivalence gets pathologized while men's gets aestheticized.
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