About Love

About Love

2005 · 102 min · JA · 5.5 (19 votes)
Dir. Zhang Yibai, Ten Shimoyama, Yee Chih-yen · Starring Chen Bolin, Misaki Itō, Mavis Fan, Ryo Kase, Li Xiaolu, Takashi Tsukamoto · Music Hironori Doi
Romance

Three stories are told, respectively set in Tokyo, Taipei, and Shanghai. The first two stories are about a Japanese person and a Taiwanese person. The last one is set in Shanghai with a story about a Japanese man and a Chinese woman. Some of the characters can speak Japanese and some of them Mandarin. Each story encompasses an experience of a foreigner, either from Japan ,Taiwan or China, with a native of the opposite country.

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A quiet exploration of human connection across borders. It feels like a series of intimate, fleeting moments, capturing the bittersweet ache of longing and the subtle beauty of shared understanding.

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