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Hakubo tells the story of two young people who live in rural Fukushima: Sachi Koyama, a girl who excels at playing the violin, and Yuusuke Kijinami, a boy who loves to paint. After an awkward, chance encounter, the two meet and begin to fall in love, but Yuusuke is still living in the shadow of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.
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(3/5)January 5, 2024
Short film about two realistically awkward teenagers falling in love as they bond over their respective arts. It's sweet enough, but nothing amazing; it felt underbaked. In particular, while the description suggests that they bond over their shared trauma as earthquake survivors as well, only Yuusuke brings it up and connects it to his art, and Sachi's trauma is not really explored, to the point where you could probably clip out the few mentions of it without having much effect. Their confessio
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