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This went about 7 bridges to far into nice guy bashing and he should have run away so very many times. Jun Ji-hyun playing the girl was so utterly despicable that you easily got to the point of reviling her. Cha Tae-hyun was the only redeeming quality here as the bumbling nice guy that gets abused beyond reason.

When she left I cheered her departure and even though I knew he would pine, she was so not worth it and you felt relief for his character. This achievement by the filmmaker is the only reason it gets two stars. If only he had gone on to some other happiness anywhere she was not while her finding out about it, would have redeemed much about the train wreck that is this mess of a film.

Good riddance to bad rubbish and the sassy shrew at the heart of it!

When coerced into sending that life altering text to a crush and awaiting the response, the short flashes through the time passing tasks that anyone can identify with! Isis really nails the common eternal anxiety of being read but not responded to with in her wonderful and super animated funny face way! Enjoyable execution of a real issue in a short format!!

When rarely bestowed upon us - is our lifes calling - our passion for what we do ripples across reality and touches those we know Not! This film is a twist of connection that brings two people together in the usual unlikeliest of fates.

When the hard hand of fate gets involved with human affairs, it is usually with the face of doom or tragedy. However sometimes as in this story, when low cannot get any lower for Tomohisa Yamashita's brilliant portrayal of Shinji - sometimes an angel of light is actually bestowed. And so it is with a bright and luminescent deaf mute by the name of Hibiki played with inspirational sweetness by Yûko Araki!!

His manga lifts her up and inspires her as he falls and spirals into the darkest of darks. When his inspiring manga halts unexpectedly Hibiki will not be deterred from finding him and knowing why. When she grabs him it turns out its with the intent to never ever let go.

Through all their trials and all the obstacles in life the tenuous connection that deepens between them uplifts everyone that sees it. But theirs is not to be an ending so happy or complete as one would expect. It is rife with pain and loss and sacrifice that seems the only way to honor the blessing of this redemption until right at the end life interferes!

Such a wonderful film like this is and its ability to bring you into it so deeply is the gift from this director and its cast. So well done is the drama that the ending is like a dream that hardly seems like it could be real and perhaps that is its only perceptible flaw of this wonderful journey.