you're my shooting star ☆╮

Genre: Drama

Cast:

• Shibasaki Kou as Yoshida Saori
• Odagiri Joe as Haruhiko
• Tanaka Min as Himiko
• Aoyama Kira as Yamazaki
• Utazawa Torauemon as Ruby
• Yanagizawa Shinichi as Masaki
• Murakami Hiroki as Chubby
• Inoue Hirokazu as Takao
• Moriyama Junkyu as Kijima
• Hatori Shinichi as Announcer
• Murashi Chiharu as Erina
• Nishijima Hidetoshi as Hosokawa 
• Tanabe Tokisawa as Junya

Synopsis:
      How a culture deals with its aging population and how it relates to its gay community are two measures of its humanity. The latest film from Isshin Inudo, who specializes in offbeat comedy, asks how Japan's aging homosexuals will fare, and the answer is, with the same outsider resilience that got them through life thus far. The House of Himiko is a beautiful seaside rest home for gay men, founded by the former proprietor of a legendary Ginza transvestite bar. Moving slowly through his domain, the stone-faced aging beauty in flowing kimono faces death from cancer. A devoted young assistant, Haruhiko, tricks Himiko's long-estranged daughter Saori into working at the home, which is populated by everyone from gentlemen chess players who spent a lifetime hiding their sexuality to cross-dressers whose burden of female identity has driven them “flaming.” Inudo's smart visual sense makes the film's finer moments resonate beyond quirky comedy—as when the residents, taking in the reality of losing one of their own, are suffused in a totally yellow light; or when they all gather on the balcony to blissfully watch tattooed young men bathing in the waves. We catch on much quicker than Saori—sullen in her abandonment-induced homophobia—to the realization that the feelings at play here run much deeper than the desire to wear (or not to wear) a dress. It is about the desire to love, and to die, as one chooses. Popular young stars Joe Odagiri as the searching Haruhiko and Kou Shibasaki as the emotionally crippled Saori play beautifully against type. 
Sukaretto says:
     i though this was a sweet countryside drama cox i didn't read the synopsis before watching, i was a bit surprised when the prologue started. XD
     the story's good, the acting's superb. Odagiri Joe's amazing! omg. now i have to hunt all his dramas and movies. :D everything's good. it just feels like the story's lacking something. i mean it just ended like that. but maybe they made it that way so they could leave the rest to the viewers' thinking.

My Ratings: i'll give this 8.5/10 :)