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Like Grains of Sand

Country: Japan, Language: Japanese, 129 mins

Original Title

Nagisa no Shindobaddo
  • Director: Ryosuke Hashiguchi
  • Writer: Ryosuke Hashiguchi
  • Producer: Kazuo Hayashi; Kiyomi Kanazawa

CGiii Comment

Geeky boys and moody girls - all agonising over their sexualities - and, it's pretty agonising for the viewer too.

At over 2 hours, it's a long drawn out process with too many irrelevant scenes and most are ridiculously protracted - to the extent of terminal monotony.


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The(ir) Blurb...

The movie is built around the very complex relationships between Yoshida, leaving Shimizu for Aihara (or at least he tries to), and his friend Ito, whose love for Yoshida seems to have little chance for success. In the end we have a coalition of Ito and Aihara - who may or may not be in love with Ito - teaching Yoshida a lesson.

Cast & Characters

Yoshinori Okada as Shuji Ito;
Ayumi Hamasaki as Kasane Aihara;
Kouji Yamaguchi as Touru Kanbara;
Kumi Takada as Ayako Shimizu;
Shizuka Isami as Rika Matsuo;
Kouta Kusano as Hiroyuki Yoshida;
Yoshihiko Hakamada as Fujita;
Bang-ho Cho as Teacher;
Miyako Yamaguchi as Ms. Yoshida;
Toshie Negishi as Ms. Nezu;
Kunio Murai as Shuji's Father;
Hiroko Anzai;
Kenichiro Samejima;
Kazumi Ikeda;
Chiharu Ishikawa as Noriko Yoshida