Kohei Igarashi’s “Tremendous Pleased Endlessly” is bitter and candy, in that order. It’s a love story that begins on the sad finish after which flips again to the start. That may sound like a recipe for ruefulness, but this isn’t a bummer within the vein of nonlinear romantic dramas akin to Derek Cianfrance’s “Blue Valentine” (2010). Reasonably, it’s a reminder that our previous happinesses nonetheless depend for one thing, even when they show fleeting.
The melody of Bobby Darin’s 1959 signature hit, “Past the Sea,” echoes via the movie. It’s a track about craving for a distant lover (“We’ll meet past the shore / We’ll kiss simply as earlier than”), however the lyrics tackle a extra melancholy resonance right here.
There’s no one ready for Sano (Hiroki Sano) when he returns to the seaside resort the place he first met his spouse, Nagi (Nairu Yamamoto), 5 years earlier. The setting is a pale seashore resort on the Izu Peninsula, as soon as a well-liked vacation spot for honeymooning {couples}. However the resort is now on the verge of closure, whereas Nagi has not too long ago died.
