Hyouka: Forbidden Secrets

Watched this movie 2025, maybe if I watch it during 2017 I will rate it as 9/10. I watched the anime before on 2024 of February suddenly got bored. Because it was slow phased, I have to tell about character who made a role here. The actor Kento Yamazaki is a big help when it comes to live-action movies specially for shojou genre films & he is very well known as a king of live-action that he made a lot of projects becauseof his feature & talents as the main one. Also, Amane okayama as his friend in the story can make a little impact of here too if every one knows about his movie, "It is not good, maybe" 2023 u can tell that his feature & his casting helps to this story. Just discovered that Suzu Hirose have an older sister & that is Alice Hirose who casted on this story, Idk about much her but I will try some of her films if there can be a good one, didn't mention all the cast but just the main ones that I know. As year passes u can be suprise on how this actor & actress progress when they released a hit one there can always be an influence feeling to watch a film. During this 2017 I think kento wasn't on the peak yet so if I watched this one during 2017 it would be 9. But the story is 10/10 for real.

If you're Kento's fan, or even if you just like japanese movies, you'll know that his speciality is high schoolers. He plays a high school boy (again) this time though not in a romantic shoujo comedy. Rather, it's about four students who are trying to solve a mystery of the past. The mystery itself isn't that interesting, though the story is kind of entertaining, with the flashbacks and the small other cases that are solved. Other than that, the movie hasn't anything else to offer. Basicly, there is no romance, no friendship dynamics, no slice of life high school nostalgia, no deep character development. So, why watch it? For the small mysteries the students are solving, and maybe if you're a Kento fan.

I just decided to watch this for Kento Yamazaki and ended up enjoying watching this adaptation a lot. The problem I had with the anime was that it had too many parts that aren't that necessary. This adaptation managed to capture the essence of Hyouka. We lost the beautiful visuals of the anime, but we got to focus on the actual mystery that the Hyouka story had, and honestly, there was an improvement here. It gave out more feels and was able to break my heart in a new way. There was a less bonding experience here between the characters, but it was alright for me. I still liked the friendship between Oreki and Satoshi. Kento Yamazaki was great in his performance as Oreki. I prefer him over the anime version. Alice Hirose was alright, but I didn't feel like she was able to embody Chitanda's enthusiasm.

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This movie is basically trash, ok maybe not because this movie is like a short version of an amazing anime called 'hyouka'. If you haven't seen the anime then go watch it, don't waste your time on this movie. The casting was horrible, the cast couldn't come close to perfection (no offense, but that was the truth). The anime was really good, but this movie was so damn bad, the only reason I'm giving this movie a 7 because it's based on "hyouka", otherwise I would have given it 2 or 3.