Movie

Beyond the Memories

2013 · 126 min

A quiet, tender romance about two wounded people slowly learning to live with loss and let each other in.

Overview: Kanna Seto lost her childhood friend Haruta in a car accident when she was a freshman in high school. Carrying the emotional pain from that incident throughout her life, Kanna is still wounded as an adult. Kanna then meets Roku Akazawa, who also carries a painful experience from his past. When Roku was an elementary school student, a girl who was with him got into an accident and died. Because of that incident, Roku carries a heavy sense of guilt. When they meet, time, frozen since that day, begins to tick again.
How it feels: Melancholic, romantic, earnest and warm. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Grief, guilt, love, healing
Content: Mild violence and sexual content. No gore or swearing.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
romanticstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: grief
guilt
love
healing
memory
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence mild
Sex mild