Name : Nur Ainun Annisa
Class :
1EA13
NPM :
14217566
“ORANGE”
オレンジ
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Directed
by
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Kôjirô Hashimoto
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Based on
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Orange
by Ichigo Takano |
Starring
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Distributed
by
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Release
date
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December 12, 2015
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Running
time
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139 minutes
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Country
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Japan
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Language
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Japanese
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Cast :
Characters :
Ø Naho Takamiya
A high school girl who receives a letter from herself ten
years in the future, informing herself that she will meet a guy named Kakeru
who she must keep an eye on. At first she ignores the letter, but when she
realizes that everything written in it actually happens, she decides to listen
to the letters in order to save Kakeru. She and Kakeru have romantic feelings
toward one another. Although at first unaware of each others feelings, due to
her future selves regrets about not informing him of her true feelings, she
informs him of her feelings, and they are able to start dating.
Ø Kakeru Naruse
A transfer student from Tokyo. On the first day of classes,
he was supposed to take his mother to the hospital, but instead he was invited
to go out with Naho and her friends, and ditches her. As he's out with his
friends, she texts him asking where he is, and he replies saying she can go by
herself, that she's not a kid, and to leave him alone because he's with
friends. Due to a mental breakdown, his mother committed suicide. Blaming
himself for his mothers suicide, Kakeru falls into deep depression for a while,
and eventually commits suicide while making everyone think it was an accident.
In the current future, he and Naho start dating, and his friends prevent his
suicide.
Ø Hiroto Suwa Naho's
friend who is in love with her. Despite knowing of Naho's and Kakeru's feelings
for each other, ten years after Kakeru's death, he and Naho are married with a
child. After watching Naho's sad face, He realizes Naho still has feelings for
Kakeru, and acknowledges Naho and Kakeru would probably have been together had
Kakeru not committed suicide. He writes a letter to his past self and asks
himself to help prevent Kakeru's suicide, and to be encouraging of Naho and
Kakeru's happiness together, even if it means he doesn't have a future with her
if Kakeru is alive.
Ø Takako Chino
Naho's friend who received a letter from her future self.
She and Azusa are best friends. They speculate that Naho and Suwa are hiding
the fact that they have letters from their future selves, and only reveal
they've gotten letters from their future selves when Naho and Suwa do. She and
Azusa support both Kakeru and Suwa when it comes to Naho.
Ø Saku Hagita
Naho's friend who likes reading manga. He received a letter
from himself and helps Kakeru. He likes Azusa but denies it.
Ø Azusa Murasaka
Naho's friend
who received a letter from her future self and helps the group keep Kakeru from
dying. She teases Hagita about them being a couple and harasses him, to which
he denies he likes her.
Ø Rio Ueda
A
girl who usually watches Kakeru's soccer games and is interested in Kakeru. She
confessed her feelings to Kakeru and they started dating. To which Naho, who is
in love with Kakeru, becomes emotionally devastated. After her split with
Kakeru, she bullies Naho but is constantly confronted by Takako, Hagita, Azusa
and Suwa.
Plot :
In 2015, Naho Takamiya (Tao Tsuchiya),
a 16-year-old girl about to start her second year of high school in Matsumoto,
abruptly receives letters while on her way to school. The letters are from Naho
herself, but ten years into the future. The Naho in the future asks her younger
self to prevent her "biggest regret" from happening. Though initially
skeptical, Naho eventually begins to read the letters as they predict some of
the events that would happen in her time, the foremost being the enrollment of
Kakeru Naruse (Kento Yamazaki), a transfer student from Tokyo, to her class.
Kakeru is quickly befriended by Naho and her friends: Hiroto Suwa (Ryo Ryusei),
Takako Chino (Hirona Yamazaki), Saku Hagita (Dori Sakurada),
and Azusa Murasaka (Kurumi Shimizu).
Through the letters, Naho learns that something bad
will happen to Kakeru. She decides to do the opposite of the events detailed in
the letters in hopes of averting it. She encourages Kakeru to join the soccer
team. She objects his pursuing of a relationship with upperclassman Rio Ueda (Erina Mano)
which ultimately leads to Kakeru's breakup with her. Naho insists that the two
watch the school fireworks together. At the same time, in 2025, the now
26-year-old Naho, who is now married and has a baby with Hiroto, visits
Kakeru's former home together with her friends, where it is revealed that they
are attending a memorial for the long-dead Kakeru. What surprises them,
however, is the revelation that Kakeru died not because of an accident, but suicide.
Back in 2015, Naho and Kakeru pay a visit to a
shrine during the Bon Festival where, through Naho's insistence,
Kakeru tearfully reveals about his mother's suicide on the day of the school
entrance ceremony, which he did not attend because of a conflict he had with
his mother. Several days afterward, Hiroto goes to Naho's house to tell her
that he has also received the letters from his 2025 self, who directs him to do
as Naho's does. He states that though they cannot undo what has happened in
their sender selves, they can create a new parallel universe where Kakeru can end up
living. To achieve this goal, Naho and Hiroto inform Chino, Hagita, and Azu
about the letters and ask them to help presenting gifts for Kakeru's 17th
birthday. Kakeru gives the flowers he requested from Hiroto to Naho. Next, all
five sign up to back Kakeru for the upcoming relay race, where he serves as the
anchor. Before the race, a murky Kakeru reveals the truth about his mother to
the five. With their support, he regains his spirit and ends up winning the
race. After the race, as a "reward" for his success in the relay
race, Kakeru kisses Naho on the cheek.
Several weeks before the New Year,
the time when Kakeru would commit suicide (according to her future self), Naho
gets into a conflict with Kakeru about his grandmother's health, and the two become
distant. A day before December 31, though, Naho confesses her feelings for
Kakeru, wherein the latter reveals his plans for suicide. At home, Kakeru finds
a pre-recorded video of his mother and learns that she committed suicide
because she did not want to burden him any further and that she wished that he
would find happiness elsewhere. On New Year's Eve, realizing that Kakeru does not come on time, the five friends
frantically search for him through the streets of Minamoto. They finally find
him almost getting hit by a truck, being saved at the last second by the
thoughts of his friends. He subsequently apologizes for his suicide attempt and
confesses that he does not want to die knowing that he cannot be with them
again.
The film closes with the 2025 Naho, Hiroto, Chino,
Hagita, and Azu watching the sunset from a hill nearby, while in the parallel
2015, the same event happens, except that Kakeru is with them.
