Candy and Kiss (Japanese)

One really good thing abut this film is that its just under an hour, so its an easy watch. Don't expect anything earth shattering from this. Its a pretty basic simple love story, with some conflict thrown in, eventually leading to a happy ending. Watch it with zero expectations and you may actually be ok with it.

Maeda-kun works in a fashion store. The guy is with the lowest self-esteem you hav seen and considers himself very ugly and not worthy of love. He does have a crush on Yagii-san, who is a manager in the mall hat hi store is in. An unexpected kid from Yagii makes him think that maybe he has a chance. Much to Maeda-kun's surprise; Yagii-san confesses his love for Maeda and soon they begin a relationship with Maeda still being very awkward. Their happiness is short-lived since Yagii is transferred to another branch in Osaka for four months. Lack of confidence on himself, causes mistrust issues for Maeda while Yagii is trying his best to make relationship work. It turns out that its the lack of sexual and physical connection between them that leads to Maeda's anxiety and jealousy and of course his lack of confidence. Thankfully the two are able to talk it out and things get better for the two.

Its a simple story as you can see and execution is pretty straight forward. At many places the direction feels very amateurish but that probably clearly this film was made on a very low budget. Yagii does well and acts well, but constantly self-questioning by Maeda started getting on my nerves. I mean he constantly mistrusts Yagii but is not ready to do something about it. That whole situation was weird to me. But Part of me does understand the reasons for insecurity. All the remaining characters were all quite superficial and added nothing much. One random thing I have noticed is that most films based on manga's have these guys have a weird hairstyle with very long hair and front covering almost half their face. Not sure what's up with that. Lol. The film is not bad but this is a very basic and simple love story which you will immediately forget after you have seen it. (4.5/10)

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