Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom?

Original title: Uchiage hanabi, shita kara miru ka? Yoko kara miru ka?

1995
45m

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7.0/10

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Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom? (1995)

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On the day when a fireworks display is planned, Norimichi, Yusuke, and their friends at school in a Japanese seaside town cannot agree whether or not fireworks are "flat" or "round" when the... Read allOn the day when a fireworks display is planned, Norimichi, Yusuke, and their friends at school in a Japanese seaside town cannot agree whether or not fireworks are "flat" or "round" when they explode in the sky. With her parents divorcing, the young teenager Nazuna has more serio... Read allOn the day when a fireworks display is planned, Norimichi, Yusuke, and their friends at school in a Japanese seaside town cannot agree whether or not fireworks are "flat" or "round" when they explode in the sky. With her parents divorcing, the young teenager Nazuna has more serious matters on her mind. Although unknown to the others, Nazuna's mother intends to take he... Read all

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The "First Edition" of the movie is the television play Uchiage hanabi, shita kara miru ka? Yoko kara miru ka? (1993), which was shot, on standard-definition video, for the anthology series If: Moshimo (1993) and broadcast, as its sixteenth episode, in 1993. The "Second Edition" is a recut version which removed the sequences featuring the series' host and was released, recorded onto film, in cinemas in 1995. A "Third Edition" was released on DVD in 1999. The same day, a new, feature-length documentary, "Shônentachi wa hanabi o yoko kara mitakatta", about the making of the original television play was also released on DVD. Most recently at the time of writing, it was upscaled into high-definition video and regraded digitally; this "New Color Grading" version was released on Blu-ray Disc and made available for internet streaming and download in 2017.

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Edited from If: Moshimo: Uchiage hanabi, shita kara miru ka? Yoko kara miru ka? (1993)

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10/10

Nice movie about the beauty of growing up.....

This movie is a great example for the kind of movie only countries with a long tradition of aesthetics like France or Japan can produce. Without anything spectacular it talks about growing up, the first sparks of love, the wonders of the world... It's rather short, but if you like a simply told story -the kind of movie Hollywood never could produce-, you definitely should give it a try.