Yoko the Cherry Blossom
November. 21,2015In 1940, Masaaki Takaoka works as a teacher in the agricultural division at a youth training institute. Although Japan’s defeat seems imminent, all of Masaaki’s students are drafted in a futile last-ditch effort. In an attempt to give the young men some hope, he makes everyone promise that they will all meet again under the cherry blossoms upon their safe return. Consumed by sadness over the fate of his students, Masaaki devotes the next 30 years of his life to develop a new species of cherry blossoms that could thrive in any climate in remembrance of his students.
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A waste of 90 minutes of my life
Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.