This Japanese love story came out in 2 parts: Monday - Thursday and Friday - Sunday. Once you watch the 2 parts and the film as a whole, you will realize why this was done. As far as I knew, Japan wasn't so open to LGBT stories, so this high school love story comes as a fresh surprise.Toji Seryo is a popular first year high school student. It's well known that Toji Seryo will date anyone that confesses their affection for him on a Monday, but he will break up with that person by Sunday. But despite that no one has anything bad to say about him. Our second guy is Yuzuru Shino, a third year student at the same high school. He looks pretty, but all of his former girlfriends end up dumping him and he is quite frustrated. Yuzuru Shino becomes curious about Toji Seryo when he hears this whole one week dating thing. On a whim, half serious & half joking, Yuzuru Shino asks Toji Seryo to date. To his surprise Seryo agrees to it. The almost 2.5 hours long film follows their hang outs through the course of the whole week. Every day, individually both of them realize that this may be something more and possibly their chance at love, but both of them also fear to bring it up with each other. They both think that the other person is doing this just as an experiment and a joke and eventually will go their own separate ways at the end of the week. Their love and attraction and passion to be with each other continuously grows every day. There is even jealousy when either of them gets surrounded by girls or ex-girlfriends. Eventually the last day, finally they open up to each other and figure out that they both want to actually get rid of this one week limit and properly date as possible boyfriends.
The premise of the story is very interesting. But I feel the execution left a lot to be desired. There is a painful amount of miscommunication and a lack of clarity between the characters. I do believe a lot of their problems could be so easily solved if they were just clear with their feelings. I understand that both boys are trying to maybe get adjusted to the idea of possibly being gay, but sadly neither of them is willing to cross the barrier. They just keep talking to themselves inside their head. I wonder if this is something to do with Japanese culture where people don't openly disclose their feelings. Also the film moves at a very snail's pace. this story can easily be told within less than 90 minutes. There is a lot of nothingness that's going on around ion the film for no reason whatsoever. The two boys look good but what's up with those cheesy hairstyles. It was difficult to move my attention from that especially Seryo's.
Overall an alright film, but the films length needs to be drastically cut short. (5/10)
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