Dear My Life

  A gentle scene that makes it easier to get through the day—warm soup, coffee, and quiet comfort. 🎥 Series Overview Detail Information Title Bread and Soup and Cat Weather (パンとスープとネコ日和) Format TV Mini-Series (4 episodes) Director Kana Matsumoto Aired July 21 – August 11, 2013 (WOWOW) Runtime Approx. 50 minutes per episode (~200 minutes total) Genre Drama, Slice of Life, Healing (Iyashi-kei) Country Japan Rating 7.5/10 (IMDb) 📖 Story Summary Akiko (Satomi Kobayashi) quits her office job after her mother's death and opens a small eatery serving just two items: bread and soup. Her life becomes unhurried—waking early to bake bread, preparing simple soups, caring for a stray cat who wanders in. There's no dramatic arc. No crisis to overcome. No transformation to celebrate. The series simply follows Akiko's daily rhythms: kneading dough, chopping vegetables, watching weather through the window, sharing quiet moments with her cat. ...

  A quiet tribute to patience, language, and the unseen labor behind every word. 🎥 Film Overview Detail Information Title The Great Passage (舟を編む / Fune o Amu) Director Yuya Ishii (石井裕也) Release April 13, 2013 (Japan) Runtime 133 minutes Genre Drama Studio Shochiku, ASMIK Ace Box Office Commercial success in Japan Rating 7.3/10 (IMDb) 📖 Plot Summary The Great Passage follows a group of editors tasked with compiling a new dictionary—a project so vast and meticulous that it spans fifteen years. At the center is Mitsuya Majime (Ryuhei Matsuda), a socially awkward but deeply sincere man whose sensitivity to language makes him uniquely suited to the work. Majime is not ambitious in a conventional sense. He does not chase recognition or advancement. Instead, he commits himself to the slow, repetitive labor of defining words—discussing nuances, researching usage, and refining meanings that most people will never question. The film unfolds a...

  Four young women walk together into a glowing horizon between autumn and winter. 🎥 Film Overview Detail Information Title Little Women Director / Screenplay Greta Gerwig Based on Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868) Genre Drama, Period, Coming-of-age Release Date December 25, 2019 (USA) Runtime 135 minutes Main Cast Saoirse Ronan (Jo), Florence Pugh (Amy), Emma Watson (Meg), Eliza Scanlen (Beth), Timothée Chalamet (Laurie), Laura Dern (Marmee), Meryl Streep (Aunt March) Music Alexandre Desplat Cinematography Yorick Le Saux Awards Academy Award for Best Costume Design + 5 Oscar nominations 📖 Plot Summary Greta Gerwig's Little Women refuses a straight line. Instead, it moves back and forth in time—between the warmth of childhood and the cooler, more complicated realities of adulthood. This structure isn't merely stylistic; it mirrors how memory works. We don't leave the past behind. We carry it with us, reshaped by loss and experience. Jo March appears first as a yo...

  A fleeting night in Vienna, held together by conversation before the sun rises. 🎥 Film Overview Title: Before Sunrise  Director: Richard Linklater  Release: January 27, 1995 (USA)  Runtime: 101 minutes  Genre: Romantic Drama  Screenplay: Richard Linklater, Kim Krizan  Studio: Castle Rock Entertainment, Columbia Pictures  Music: Fred Frith  Box Office: $22.5 million worldwide (Budget: $2.5 million)  Rating: IMDb 8.1 / Rotten Tomatoes Critics 100%  Awards: Silver Bear for Best Director (Berlin International Film Festival, 1995)  Cast: Ethan Hawke (Jesse), Julie Delpy (Céline) 📖 Plot Summary Jesse, an American in his early twenties, is traveling by train from Budapest to Vienna, where he plans to catch a flight home the next morning. Céline, a French student returning to Paris, sits nearby. When a couple argues loudly in their compartment, Jesse and Céline exchange glances—and a conversation quietly begins. Th...

The world reveals love only when we choose to look for it. 🎥 Film Overview Title: Love Actually Director: Richard Curtis Release: November 7, 2003 (USA); November 14, 2003 (UK) Runtime: 135 minutes (2 hours 15 minutes) Genre: Romantic Comedy, Drama, Holiday Screenplay: Richard Curtis Studio: Working Title Films, DNA Films, StudioCanal, Universal Pictures Music: Craig Armstrong Box Office: $250.2 million worldwide ($40 million budget) Rating: 7.6/10 (IMDb), 65% (Rotten Tomatoes Critics), 72% (Audience Score) Cast: Hugh Grant (Prime Minister David), Emma Thompson (Karen), Alan Rickman (Harry), Liam Neeson (Daniel), Colin Firth (Jamie), Keira Knightley (Juliet), Laura Linney (Sarah), Bill Nighy (Billy Mack), Martine McCutcheon (Natalie), Andrew Lincoln (Mark), Chiwetel Ejiofor (Peter), Rodrigo Santoro (Karl), Martin Freeman (John), Rowan Atkinson (Rufus), Thomas Brodie-Sangster (Sam), Billy Bob Thornton (US President) 📖 Plot Summary Love Actually opens with a si...