Fireworks

2017 [JAPANESE]

Action / Animation / Drama / Family / Fantasy / Romance / Sci-Fi

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 60% · 29 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 60% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.6/10 10 4368 4.4K

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Plot summary

Moshimo, Japan. The annual fireworks festival is about to take place and a group of schoolboys, arguing over whether they are round or flat when viewed from different angles, set out to find it out.

Director

Akiyuki Shinbo Photo
Akiyuki Shinbo

Top cast

Masaki Suda Photo
Masaki Suda as Shimada Norimichi
Kana Hanazawa Photo
Kana Hanazawa as Miura Sensei
Shûichi Uchida Photo
Shûichi Uchida as Seito
Takahiro Sakurai Photo
Takahiro Sakurai as Mitsuishi Sensei
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
794.09 MB
1280*714
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
25 fps
1 hr 26 min
Seeds 1
1.59 GB
1920*1072
Japanese 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
25 fps
1 hr 26 min
Seeds 8

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by vivianlw 6 / 10

A pretty story

I believe this movie deserves a better score. I didn't quite understand it myself when I watched it for the first time, but I slowly digested it. The core of this story is "if" and "pity". We miss so many chances in our lives, we feel sorry, we regret, and we cry. This movie gives us a chance to catch all the "if"s and correct the unconscious mistakes. However we'll never be able to correct all the mistakes and we even make more new mistakes during this process. We feel empty and lonely. This is life, the mistakes and pity make life what it is. There's always beautiful scenery on the way besides the fireworks. When we become peaceful with life, we grow up.
Reviewed by westsideschl 2 / 10

In a Rut

Animation out of Japan has been in a rut the past decade. Same old tired stories of high school & lower grades' students seeking a love interest. Usual added supernatural element. Usual fixation w/female breasts; short skirts; unrealistically skinny everywhere else. Add in the usual stilted 2-D quality animation w/flat backgrounds.
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