Yukisuke, a young, leggy bio-archeologist, gets to know Koyomi, a young land, selling Taiyaki on the street, similar to Korean fish-shaped bun. He is fascinated by her and visits her stall often. The two talk together and often hang out, but Koyomi gets in a car accident and is hospitalized. In a coma for days, she finally regains consciousness, but suffers from temporary amnesia. Yukisuke tries to stay closest to her as before, but her past memories give him a hard time. Taking a look at the acting skills of Director KAWASE Naomi, who appears as Koyomi’s legal guardian in hospital scenes, is another delicacy of watching the film.
KANAGAWA Ryutaro, a young director, hailed by French film magazine ‘Cahiers du Cinéma’ as a new wave of Japanese films, was born in 1990 in KANAGAWA, Japan. His debut film August in Tokyo and his second film Tokyo Sunrise were invited to the Tokyo International Film Festival in 2014 and 2015, while his third feature, Flower in Summer, won the International Critics Association Award at the 2017 Moscow International Film Festival. The fourth film, Mio on the Beach, was invited to the Moscow International Film Festival that ended last April. It Stopped Raining is the director’s latest film. (Jay JEON)