Midnight Sun (film)
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| Midnight Sun | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Norihiro Koizumi |
| Written by | Kenji Bando |
| Starring | YUI Takashi Tsukamoto Kuniko Asagi Goro Kishitani Sogen Tanaka Airi Toyama |
| Music by | YUI |
| Distributed by | Shochiku Co.,Ltd. (Japan) |
| Release date(s) |  June 17, 2006 December 12, 2006 January 5, 2007 January 25, 2007 |
| Running time | 119 min. |
| Language | Japanese |
| IMDb profile | |
Midnight Sun (タイヨウのうた Taiyō no Uta, ?, lit. "Song to the Sun") is a movie starring the Japanese artist and singer YUI. In the movie, she plays the role of Amane Kaoru (雨音 薫), a 16 year old girl who suffers from the rare skin condition xeroderma pigmentosum (XP), a disease that makes the ultraviolet radiation of sunlight potentially lethal to her. YUI's character is partly based on herself, as she is an amateur singer and guitarist, and she performs three of YUI's songs in the movie; It's Happy Line, Good-bye days and Skyline.
[edit] Story
The story is centered around Kaoru, who is out almost every night playing and singing in front of the train station. At day she sleeps, but every morning she sits by the window of her room to watch a young surfer, Fujishiro Kouji (藤代孝治), played by Takashi Tsukamoto, who usually waits by a bus stop for his friends before they go surfing each morning. She develops a crush on the boy, even though she doesn't even know him.
Until one night, when she is playing as usual by the train station she sees Kouji pass by. She leaves his guitar and runs after him, running into him and knocking him over when she finally catches up to him by the. She then proceeds to clumsily introduce herself in a way that leaves Kouji utterly confused and her friend embarrassed. When she drags her home, they sit by her window while they watch him meet up with his friends by the bus stop. Kaoru explains everything, and her friend notes that she probably goes to the same school as him, and offers to spy on him with a camcorder.
The next night she sits by the bus stop before going home after singing, and she plays a song there and sings with her eyes closed, and afterwards opens them to find Kouji having arrived on his scooter. Both embarrassed, they start talking and Kouji eventually promises to meet her and listen to her sing another night, at the start of the school holidays.
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