[DeepL Translation - needs review] The moving novel, which has sold over 500,000 copies, will be made into a movie in 2020 with the strongest lineup! Yuko Tanaka and Yu Aoi passionately play the roles of Momoko-san, and Shuichi Okita, the most popular writer/director of "The Chef of South Polar" and "Mori no iru basho" wrote and directed the film. A cheering song for all walks of life.
(Translator: DeepL)
So much pain...
A woman looking back on her life, reliving and re-feeling some of the most relevant passages, with so much unhealed pain on so many levels, paired with an interesting psyche and a certain matter-of-factness. The end was more hopeful than I had imagined - a very Japanese ending in fact. The story touched on interesting aspects, but I found it way too repetitive and long-winding.
The type of narrative was really interesting, for the most part it felt like the author was with the protagonist at al