Love Place: Shiawase no Katachi (Japanese) [The Pattern of Happiness]

With just under one hour, its a simple sweet love story. It's relatively short but probably just right to fit in all the ingredients and hold interest with no padding. I like the fact that it was just straight forward, to the point and no unnecessary fluff added just for the sake of it.

Souta and Doumoto are very much in love and have finally moved in together. However, the couple's happiness is short-lived since Souta's older sister, Kozue, unexpectedly arrives after fighting with her mother. For some reason, seeing the attention Soumoto gives to her, Souta ends up being jealous of his sister thinking that his boyfriend is into her. Its only later he finds out that Doumoto has been supportive of her because she has been dumped by her boyfriend and his mother just because she cannot have children. Souta finally sees sense and together with his boyfriend they decide to take revenge on that guy. A hilarious scene follows where he pretends to show up as the boyfriend of this guy. Finally the sister finds peace and the two make lovers live happily.

The couple of love scenes between two good looking guys in this film are handled well, and of course the fact that the film ends with happily ever after kinda scenario is always a welcome. The two guys have good chemistry and I was laughing my ass off when Souta shows up pretending to be that guys boyfriend , especially when they are talking to a prospective bride situation. I could not have thought of that kind of revenge. Post credit there is a short 10-min after-story that is tacked on, which is the boy's story 7 years back when they didn't even know each other (maybe its for upcoming prequel or sequel). Overall a cute, sweet story that also tells you that communication is important. Souta just cooked up stories in his mind about his boyfriend and his sister without understanding the reason behind it. Overall, a decent watch. (5/10)

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