Nagisa, however, at first has neither the money nor desire to underwrite Ichika’s dancing dream. Still, that dream comes to remind Nagisa of her own: To be accepted as a woman and a mother.The stories of Nagisa and Ichika make for an awkward fit, not helped by plot turns that range from the expected to the turgid.
But as he did in such films as “Lowlife Love” (2015) and “Love and Other Cults” (2017), which also examined Japanese society’s outer edges, Uchida gets beneath the surface of his characters’ milieus to find moments of unforced drama and closely observed realism.
I’ve seen many dance classes in films (and even a few in person), but none with the intensity and youthful power of Ichika’s.Additionally, though Hattori has her limits as.