F is for Future (2019)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2019
	Director: Teppei ISOBE
	Actors: Yasuyuki SAKURAI, Hiroki SANO, Chido MATSUMOTO, Kei NAKADO
	Country: J
	Genre: Drama
	Conditions of visioning: 14.06.2020, NCF2020, 14" computer screen
Synopsis: Instead of worrying about his future, Takuya aimlessly spends his time with his high school classmates.
Review: I had planned to use this movie as a filler in the Nippon Connection 2020 online Festival, as it lasts only 60 minutes and promised a nice humorous teenagers story. I managed to squeeze it in my programme and am the more glad about it. I was expecting more comedy, and awaiting the funny moments annoyingly described in the movie synopsis (spoiler, highlight to read: one of the friends die and the others honor a pact they made of hiding his collection of porn material). Reading that synopsis gives a totally wrong expectation of the movie. Instead, it is a little Drama representing with apparently great realism the life of high-schoolers that age. I loved to watch them hang around, tease each other and behave like teens, with no exaggerations. We see how they react to the facts of adult life that hit them: what to do of their Future, how to leave their family, relationships, death, what others think of you. I guess this is called a coming-of-age movie, and that's a darn good one in spite of its short length. For me it was just perfectly cut, especially if you don't read the annoying synopsis before (but I have to admit it is what attracted me to the movie...).
Rating: 7 /10