A Bad Summer (2025)
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Δράμα
50%
Ενηλικίωσης
30%
Slice of Life
20%
Sasaki is a sincere civil servant, working at city hall. Due to his timid personality, he can't properly deal with nasty people, including a single mother on the verge of giving up her own child, another civil servant pressing him to have a physical relationship, and a person who receives welfare benefits unfairly. His passivity leads him to get caught up in a terrible crime.
🤖 AI Film Analyst Insight
"Hideo Jojo's 'A Bad Summer' emerges as a quietly resonant character study, albeit one that occasionally struggles with narrative momentum. Takumi Kitamura delivers a nuanced performance, anchoring the film with his understated portrayal of youthful disillusionment, complemented by Yuumi Kawai and Marika Ito's compelling, if sometimes underutilized, roles. Jojo’s direction excels in crafting a palpable atmosphere of humid tension and fading innocence, utilizing natural light and long takes to evoke a sense of languid melancholy. While visually striking and thematically rich in its exploration of regret and the passage of time, the film's deliberate pacing occasionally verges on stagnant, testing the patience of viewers not fully immersed in its contemplative rhythm. Despite this, its raw emotional honesty and the lingering sense of a pivotal, if painful, summer make it a noteworthy, if imperfect, entry in the contemporary Japanese drama landscape."