Aichaku

This drama rom-com felt a little bit dry in my opinion. Maybe because there's not enough soundtrack to support the movie? Music can influence a movie greatly if you can pick the right ones. Maybe there wasn't enough budget to hire some musicians? Too bad. Plot wise, it's decent and pretty interesting to watch. It's just that this movie is also about green card fraud. So it's in the grey area with the law. But that's the only thing in the movie that raises some eye brows. Everything else is just good drama and dry humor. It's well directed and the acting was passable. Especially for non-famous actors and actresses.

I've been watching this movie often since I discovered it, and every time it moves me as if it were the first time! I usually love movies where the main message is clear from the start, but in this case, there's the surprise that love can do anything! Ken is a boy shaped by the bitterness of life. Without emotions, he suffers because he can't express them and doesn't know what he wants from his life. Then Luke, with his simplicity, wins Ken's heart. This movie is a succession of emotions, but it's not boring because at times it's funny! A beautiful movie! I highly recommend it! The actors are magnificent!

I'm not a foreigner and I'm not gay. I don't understand everything in this movie. I liked that it still made me feel like I was not an enemy when I watched it. It didn't make fun of Japanese people and straight people were not the villain. It was about life conflicts and all kinds of love. The villain is just situations the characters are in. They have to figure out what is moving forward.

Was it a perfect movie? No. Was it an interesting movie? Yes. I recommend it. It is worth checking out, especially since it's free on prime video. If it was not free, I am not sure what I would think or feel. For something free though I felt like it had a lot of value, so maybe I would not mind.

I was a bit worried when I first started watching this because it looks less like a normal BL movie than I was expecting. Having said that, I think this movie kind of got the balance right.

The romance in the movie is lovely. It was very cute, but still felt realistic enough that non-BL fans could enjoy it. The starry sky scene and the cafe fantasy were for sure for BL fans. I don't know if there was ever a foreign lead in a BL movie before, but this might be the first. It was very interesting to watch and added some elements to the movie that I hadn't seen before in BL.

If someone is looking for a LGBTQ+ movie that has strong social messages attached to it, I'm not sure if they will be satisfied with this. It certainly has a message. For a BL movie it almost has too much of a message. (Do you see what I mean about getting the balance right?) I thought that the main message was about love in general and how important it is. What I really liked was that Aichaku was about all kinds of love, so it was easy to feel attached to the world of the movie.

Since Aichaku means "attachment," perhaps that was the goal. If so, they certainly accomplished it.

Trite, self indulgent and bad. Just bad overall.

I won't even begin to voice my opinion after a reviewer (above or below me here), I'll call them double D said the exact same thing I was thinking as I read each of their paragraphs. There isn't even an OUNCE of chemistry between them, nada.

The Japanese lead was incredibly good to look at, I will give you that and he kept my interest for the film. That being said, even in Japanese he couldn't act as way out of a wet paper bag. No offense my friend, I'm not attacking you personally if you read this review...but given what I viewed, you would not have acted your way out a out of a wet, perforated bag.

As for the American lead, it's been a long, long time since I've seen such incredibly poor and self indulgent melodramatic turns, heaped under a pile of what the actor thought he was emoting, emotions, topped by all sorts of VERY stereotypical, "barbie like" head throws and twists and with all KINDS of stomping and swishing going on when they were upset. This is how an adult, who goes to Japan to teach English, carries themselves?

Was this supposed to be a trans film, maybe a lady/boy type of film? I am being dead serious.

I'm hoping that this is just a sophomore attempt and then it gives everyone involved the chance to learn and grow and make better each time you produce and then present. I'd love to give you more than two stars but I'm sorry, the American lead destroyed it for me, it's not even worth the time nor the effort to point out some of the poor camera angles, the lighting, the direction, and how someone, never it seems, took into account sound and how to utilize it. The Japanese lead is soft spoken YET no one in sound took this into account? GOD GRIEF!)