Visiting Osaka Juso's mini-theater to see Miho Nakayama

Wednesday is movie service day.
I'm always torn about what to watch, but today I immediately decided on "The Third Murder" (Butterfly Sleep) currently showing at Theater Seven in Juso.

The story is a love story about Ryoko, a popular divorced author played by Miho Nakayama, who develops early-onset Alzheimer's. With a life expectancy of three years, she decides to find fulfillment before she passes away by becoming a university lecturer, where she falls in love with a student named Chan-hae who came from South Korea.

Everything about this film is simply beautiful! Miho Nakayama's appearance is, of course, stunning, her fashion is novel and wonderful, the design of the house and rooms is lovely without being pretentious, and the actor playing her partner, Kim Jae-wook, is beautiful himself. The love scenes were completely devoid of vulgarity and were the most beautiful I have ever seen.

There was a scene where Ryoko, played by Miho Nakayama, is strongly admonished by a friend not to drink too much alcohol, and I found myself thinking, 'Please, cut back on the drinking,' as reality overlapped with the film, and I truly wished for it.

The scenes where Ryoko, affected by Alzheimer's, flies into a rage in front of her students, lashes out at her partner, or acts like a child throwing a tantrum in front of her ex-husband, only to fall into despair once she regains her senses, are sad, yet even those moments are captured beautifully.

If asked for the highlight, it would be the scene where Ryoko entrusts the organization of her bookshelf to Chan-hae, who rearranges the books by the color of their covers. When finished, the bookshelf looks like an artistic rainbow gradient when viewed from the front, and Ryoko is overjoyed.

The sad way Ryoko chose to say goodbye was painful to watch, but I was saved by the ending, where two years later, Chan-hae, now a popular author, goes to visit Ryoko at the facility, and she reacts faintly, touching him as if she remembered him.
It's a wish that won't come true, but I find myself hoping that Miho Nakayama will do a stage greeting for her new film.