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Pretty smart of him to speak intentionally worse Japanese. I do wonder if he has figured his true nationality already, since he speaks perfect Kyoto-ben. If I lost my memory and realized I can speak perfect Queen's English I'd start figuring things out.

Director Yamana! I knew he would save Ryu in China somehow

I see, Japanese still sounds alien to him because his mind is blocking it off. I wonder when he will figure out he's Japanese?

Interesting, taking the porn premise, subverting it by adding realism with her looks and emotional depth with their budding relationship... and then putting the porn premise back on the table again. Invested to see what happens now that the situation has shifted.

That god of death is very Akane.

Foot binding is also one of those crazy rabbit holes to read through, what a bizarre practice. I'm interested to see what will happen when Long comes face to face with the Japanese and realizes he can understand them.

Farewells were a much bigger deal back then. It's hard to imagine how it must have felt in this modern interconnected world.

He somehow became a more faithful husband when he forgot his wife

Can't think of a worse way to get your romantic hopes shot down

OLD MAN YAOI

Hard to blame Tatsu feeling this way since we know her useless husband cheated on her and is currently an amnesiac hobo in bumfuck china.

Meiji period, and more specifically the bakumatsu preceeding it, are some of my favorite historical periods. This is essentially a bakumatsu period story, minus the fact it takes place in the future.

What if he gets sent to the Chinese front and meets Ryu

The start of the movie reminds me of Harakiri, where the protagonist is an impoverished samurai making paper umbrellas. Great movie, but nothing like the one here.

Oh Ryu, you essentially sacrificed your life to do the right thing, but is it the right thing to leave your wife alone? This is the shadow left by heroics, people always say that they would "die for their family", but would they be willing to "live for their family"?

I like the idea that the weird hair barber guy is actually just a weird barber, and he will give the Great Kinta same kind of glowup as Okarun did at the start.

I think the Japanese will reach their village, he'll fight and then regain his memory that he himself is Japanese. Whoo boy the drama potential. He has always been half Chinese and half Japanese, we have followed Ryu's childhood where he believed he was fully Japanese, now we follow Long who...

It's gonna be amnesia isn't it? I know it's an useful trope but I still hate it.

I mean they were a bunch of old dudes going "uuh if one of us was a super hot chick we could like bang duuude" so obviously they'd reject her for not being a supermodel. But I like the dynamic between the two theyre real cute. I wish this could stay a cute old man yaoi hetero version for longer...

True, true.