Both movies involve starting to play guitar. Beautiful voice. Bromance. Talented. Humble. Heartwarming.
Aki Miyata was a musician and died 1 year ago. He had a bright and positive personality. Sota Kubota is a university student. He is not good at socializing with people. One day, Sota Kubota picks up a cassette tape, which was left by Aki Miyata. If Sota Kubota plays the cassette tape, Aki Miyata’s spirit takes over Sota Kubota's body for only 30 minutes. With Aki Miyata's spirit in his body, Sota Kubota goes to see Aki's former girlfriend Kana Murase and his other bandmates.
Set in Japan in the 1990s, there's one rising band called LANDS, that is starting to find success amidst a flood of other bands.
Asako and Miharu are two Tokyo high school students. When Miharu gives Asako her favorite indie rock band; a LANDS CD, she becomes an overnight fan and sets her heart on the talented guitarist Yukiya.
When they go to see them in concert, they sneak their way into the backstage area and Asako gets acquainted with some of the band's members. Natsu, the vocalist, is immediately attracted to Asako and begins bringing her along to the band's practice sessions. Though Asako enjoys it, she proves to be a distraction to the other band members and is soon ejected from the session by Yukari, their manager. But Natsu is determined to keep her around, pulling strings to make Yukari and Asako to become friends, and eventually, helping Asako to become LANDS co-manager.
LANDS was formed among friends, but as the band begins to climb the ladder towards major stardom, they get in touch with the dark side of the music industry, discord surfaces, inevitable frictions emerge, and unrequited love strains their friendship, threatening to pull their bonds apart.
Asako and Miharu are two Tokyo high school students. When Miharu gives Asako her favorite indie rock band; a LANDS CD, she becomes an overnight fan and sets her heart on the talented guitarist Yukiya.
When they go to see them in concert, they sneak their way into the backstage area and Asako gets acquainted with some of the band's members. Natsu, the vocalist, is immediately attracted to Asako and begins bringing her along to the band's practice sessions. Though Asako enjoys it, she proves to be a distraction to the other band members and is soon ejected from the session by Yukari, their manager. But Natsu is determined to keep her around, pulling strings to make Yukari and Asako to become friends, and eventually, helping Asako to become LANDS co-manager.
LANDS was formed among friends, but as the band begins to climb the ladder towards major stardom, they get in touch with the dark side of the music industry, discord surfaces, inevitable frictions emerge, and unrequited love strains their friendship, threatening to pull their bonds apart.
Aki Miyata was a musician and died 1 year ago. He had a bright and positive personality. Sota Kubota is a university student. He is not good at socializing with people. One day, Sota Kubota picks up a cassette tape, which was left by Aki Miyata. If Sota Kubota plays the cassette tape, Aki Miyata’s spirit takes over Sota Kubota's body for only 30 minutes. With Aki Miyata's spirit in his body, Sota Kubota goes to see Aki's former girlfriend Kana Murase and his other bandmates.
In order to stop his classmates from bullying him, the protagonist, Kamiya Tooru, makes a false confession to a girl in his class, Hino Maori. Even though she knows that the confession is a lie, Maori says yes with the three rules: "Don't talk to me until after school," "Keep communication brief," and "Don't fall in love with each other". The two promise not to fall in love, but as they get to know each other, they find themselves drawn to each other. When Tooru finally couldn't hold back his feelings, Maori's words were unexpected.
"I have an anterograde amnesia, and I forget things when I sleep at night. Everything that's happened in a day". Her memories and experiences were reset every day, and she wrote down the day's events in a diary and woke up early in the morning to review them in order to keep her memory alive. Tooru is devoted to bringing her as much happiness as possible. However, such daily life did not last long. What is the "plan" that Tooru has devised to protect Maori's happiness? The raging climax and the fragile tenderness will wrap the world in warm tears once again.
"I have an anterograde amnesia, and I forget things when I sleep at night. Everything that's happened in a day". Her memories and experiences were reset every day, and she wrote down the day's events in a diary and woke up early in the morning to review them in order to keep her memory alive. Tooru is devoted to bringing her as much happiness as possible. However, such daily life did not last long. What is the "plan" that Tooru has devised to protect Maori's happiness? The raging climax and the fragile tenderness will wrap the world in warm tears once again.
Aki Miyata was a musician and died 1 year ago. He had a bright and positive personality. Sota Kubota is a university student. He is not good at socializing with people. One day, Sota Kubota picks up a cassette tape, which was left by Aki Miyata. If Sota Kubota plays the cassette tape, Aki Miyata’s spirit takes over Sota Kubota's body for only 30 minutes. With Aki Miyata's spirit in his body, Sota Kubota goes to see Aki's former girlfriend Kana Murase and his other bandmates.
When his boss, Dae Jung, goes missing in a ship accident, the company sends Woo Joo to Osaka to finish his business. On his last day in the city, Woo Joo chases someone looking exactly like Dae Jung to Taisho, an area in Osaka. He ends up losing him, but the sound of a guitar draws Woo Joo to a small bar, Pier 34. Its owner, Snow, somehow reminds him of Dae Jung, and listening to his music brings back memories.
After passing out right there, Woo Joo ends up missing his flight back to Korea. He quits his job on a whim and soon meets Haruna, who is learning how to play the guitar from Snow. Woo Joo decides to stay at Pier 34 until he finds Dae Jung and so begins an unlikely vacation for him.
After passing out right there, Woo Joo ends up missing his flight back to Korea. He quits his job on a whim and soon meets Haruna, who is learning how to play the guitar from Snow. Woo Joo decides to stay at Pier 34 until he finds Dae Jung and so begins an unlikely vacation for him.
Satsuki's lover Hitoshi dies suddenly. She is unable to get over his death and is mired in deep sadness. Satsuki keeps thinking about the moon shadow phenomenon, which she heard about in the past. The moon shadow phenomenon is a mysterious event that allows a person to meet the dead at the end of a full moon
similarities:
- body swap
- music focus
- male leads struggle to express themselves properly to those around them & the body swap helps them with that
- strong bonds between band members
- unfinished business from the characters who body swap with the male lead
- both movies deal with learning to move on and accepting change
differences:
- Our 30 Minute Sessions the male lead is present throughout the movie & switches out with the character he body switches with & they kind of befriend each other in the process, whereas in EVEN once the body switch happens you only see that character within the male lead's body
- though both movies focus on the bands themselves EVEN is more romance focused in my opinion
- body swap
- music focus
- male leads struggle to express themselves properly to those around them & the body swap helps them with that
- strong bonds between band members
- unfinished business from the characters who body swap with the male lead
- both movies deal with learning to move on and accepting change
differences:
- Our 30 Minute Sessions the male lead is present throughout the movie & switches out with the character he body switches with & they kind of befriend each other in the process, whereas in EVEN once the body switch happens you only see that character within the male lead's body
- though both movies focus on the bands themselves EVEN is more romance focused in my opinion
Aki Miyata was a musician and died 1 year ago. He had a bright and positive personality. Sota Kubota is a university student. He is not good at socializing with people. One day, Sota Kubota picks up a cassette tape, which was left by Aki Miyata. If Sota Kubota plays the cassette tape, Aki Miyata’s spirit takes over Sota Kubota's body for only 30 minutes. With Aki Miyata's spirit in his body, Sota Kubota goes to see Aki's former girlfriend Kana Murase and his other bandmates.
