Review of Dogwood Tree (2010) by Winsome L — 01 Mar 2011

50% of the movie time was spent on elaborating the "background" - how they fall in love, their so-called long distance love (it's only a matter of Hokkaido and Tokyo), and finally, their stupid separation, and finally get back together and become happily ever after.

In short, it's a very old-schooled love story. Very interesting is that the girl has to go to university to study Englsih and work abroad with good spoken English, but the high-school graduated "fisherman" (no-offend) can easily communicate with the coffer shop owner somewhere in Nova Scotia IN ENGLISH - why bother going to university - and especially it's talking about Waseda~!!! Sad to see Yakushimaru Horoko gets so old - she looks like a grandma rather than a mom.

See Koizumi Kyoto in another movie recently, she is still so young~ God~ Time kills a woman~ Oh~ Perhaps the target audience are youngsters, the movie may be appealing to them, but not younger (when they don't know what love is) nor older (that they know love is not everything).

It's a waste to have Hokkaido as the spot as they only focus on a small fish village - then why not other more inland and remote places to make the story more convincing? But anyways, it's OK to be a time-killer as "Sae" is preety, and "Kouhei" is handsome.