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An emotional movie about three childhood friends connected through a traumatic event which still influences their lives. The Japanese have a way with telling stories with a certain dignity, authenticity and meaning to them. I enjoyed it.

...little story that possible happened more than one time over the Centuries; however, this movie can not reach the right strings to really introduce you deeper in the plot. A hidden secret that developed different lives for several persons. Is interesting to see, from a sociological point of view; how the interactions or the lack of, transform these lives for good in some cases and others with that feeling of bear the cross all over their life. The sense of protection that they did not had is now devoted to others.

Sakura Ando very good as always. Also Kiyohiko Shibukawa appears too. -The color palette gave me sensations of a paint; kind of theatrical at moments, with some blurs and pale and undefined horizons. Worked good, Police investigation was simple and good but is not possible to just find a person on the street in Japan...that lives millions. C mon.

Abandoned as a child, Atsushi (Junichi Okada) grew up in the home with orphaned boys like himself: Keita (Shun Oguri) and Satoshi (Tasuku Emoto). And there was Ryoko (Sakura Ando), a mother to them, full of affection and love. Their days were happy...until it all suddenly came crashing to a halt with an incident that tore them apart. 25 years later, Atsushi is a police detective, separated from his wife after a miscarriage. Keita is a building contractor with a wife and a child on the way. Satoshi runs a glass company in Tokyo, inherited from his father-in-law. But saddled in debt, he must rely upon Keita for money. Three disparate and distinct lives, all bearing a secret past, reconnect over Satoshi's death. Atsushi views Keita as a prime suspect while their sealed past with Ryoko threatens to be exposed. "Some things need to be remembered, even if you'd spent your life forgetting." A truth, hidden in a phrase, resparks their lives.