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2/5 stars
Muddled and frustrating almost from the outset, Yoshihiro Fukagawa's achingly sentimental weepie Love Like the Falling Petals struggles to tell its story with coherent clarity. It offers a lament for the fleeting nature of existence while simultaneously bemoaning the financial and emotional burden the elderly impose upon their families. Honoka Matsumoto plays a disarmingly youthful hairstylist who is stricken.
A young hairdresser and a would-be photographer fall in love, but she suffers from premature ageing and walks out on him – a development that creates an opening to vent about Japan’s ageing society.