09
Sep
神様のカルテ (Kami-sama no Karute)
This was my favorite Japanese movie I’ve seen ALL summer (at least in the movie theater). There’s just so much warmth, kindness and happiness in the film that I never expected out of a medical movie.
Of course this film would garner a huge fan base just by using Sakurai Sho from Arashi as the lead role. Sakurai’s role is a very strange doctor. He’s always in his own world is actually very philosophical for a doctor. He’s stuck in a difficult position where he has an offer to go to a University hospital to work alongside doing research, but doesn’t know if he wants to that. The encounter he has with one of his patients helps him decide.
Miyazaki Aoi plays the wife of Sakurai’s character. As always Miyazaki is great and is a photographer again (before in Tada Kimi wo Aishiteru)! She really matches with a camera lol but anyway her acceptance of her husband and the way she supports her husband is so nice. It really made me realize and understand the saying, “Behind every great man there is a great woman”.
The music in the film is another reason why I would recommend watching it. The pianist that wrote the main theme is actually blind. His name is Tsuji Nobuyuki and in 2009 he won a very prestigious international piano competition despite his inability to see. He really has a gift and it’s not just in his playing, it’s also in his composing. The theme for this song fits so well with the film everyone in the theater was crying by the end of the film. I ran to the CD store right after watching this movie to buy the album, it’s that amazing.
