About the Film

Classroom dynamics in the wake of a tragedy are ably explored in director Yuho Ishibashi’s “Sayounara”. It is based on a SNS manga of the same name by the artist Gomen and retains some of the manga’s original characters while expanding the world of the manga to suit the feature length format.

Synopsis

In a quiet coastal town lives Yuki, an ordinary high-school girl who likes doing what most girls her age like to do. She is not completely reserved but likes to mingle only with the people she gets along with. Her best friend is Aya, who she’s known for years and who one day, while on their after-school stroll on the beach, announces that she is moving to a different town and school and instinctively kisses Yuki. Yuki has still not collected her thoughts over the incident when she gets the news that Aya has passed away in what is being described as an “accident”. The tragedy prompts Yuki into being pretty much ostracised in her class, since a lot of her classmates didn’t really like Aya for being popular among the boys, while Yuki herself searches for and grasps at any sliver of normalcy to return to her life.

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