Director: Shōsuke Murakami
Screenplay by: Yōko Izumisawa
Base On:
One Week Friends by Matcha Hazuki
Cast: Haruna Kawaguchi, Kento Yamazaki, Haori Takahashi, Seika Furuhata,
etc
Synopsis: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Week_Friends_(film))
High school student and aspiring artist Yuki Hase falls in love at
first sight with Kaori Fujimiya after the latter narrowly manages to
pass down a borrowed French dictionary Yuki left behind inside a train.
To his joy, Yuki learns that he and Kaori share class for their second
year. However, Kaori seems to have forgotten their meeting. When he
introduces himself again, she rejects his offer of friendship. Yuki
later finds out that she has similarly rejected other offers since her
transfer 3 months ago and is thus regarded as a pariah within the
school.
Nevertheless, Yuki strives for Kaori's friendship, gaining the
attention of his teacher, Mr. Inoue. Inoue tells him that due to an
accident, Kaori suffers from both retrograde and anterograde amnesia;
any memory other than that of her parents is suppressed after a week.
Undaunted, Yuki has made up his mind to become Kaori's friend in anyway.
To remind her of him and other things, he gives her a shared journal,
where the two can share their memories every week. By this method, the
two slowly grow closer and Kaori becomes more and more open.
In summer, Yuki invites Kaori to attend a fireworks festival
alongside his friends Shogo Kiryu and Saki Yamagishi. There, Kaori runs
into her middle school friends, Hajime Kujo and Mayu Kondo, the former
of whom has just transferred from Tokyo
to the same school as Yuki and Kaori. Unable to remember them, Kaori
attempts to excuse herself, but experiences flashbacks when Kujo calls
her a "traitor" and passes out. When she wakes up, she appears to
remember him in personal terms.
That autumn, the school holds a fair. Mayu visits the school again to
meet Kaori, in the process informing Saki, Kujo, and Shogo of the
latter's condition. She reveals that she had indirectly caused Kaori's
accident and amnesia. During middle school, when Kujo had to transfer to
Tokyo, he confessed his love for Kaori and asked to meet her one last
time before he moved away. Words of the confession reached out to the
school, ostracizing Kaori due to Kujo's popularity among the female
students. They, including Mayu, sabotaged the meeting by throwing
insults at Kaori, who fled in shame and was hit by a car. Following this
revelation, Kaori fully remembers Kujo. Realizing that he could never
compete with someone she remembers permanently, Yuki decides to stop
befriending Kaori and tearfully burns the shared journal. Despite this,
he politely rejects Saki's love confession several months later,
declaring that he only have eyes for Kaori.
The next two spring seasons, Yuki and Kaori graduate. Kaori is called
to the library to return a book, which turns out to be the French
dictionary Yuki had borrowed a year ago using her member card. She
learns that Yuki has illustrated the content of their shared journal
into flip book drawings inside the dictionary. Finally remembering him, she rushes to meet him and asks to be his friend, an offer he accepts.
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