Product Description: Honey and Clover is a romantic comedy about a group of art school students who try to scrape by barely earning enough money buy food and pay their rent. But as soon as an innocent and talented 19-year-old girl enters their lives things get a lot more complicated as love triangles result.System Requirements:Running Time: 116 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ANIMATION/ANIME UPC: 896911001089 Manufacturer No: YHCM01
A delightfully emotional story about the bonds of friendship Honey and Clover is a live-action Japanese romantic comedy movie with English subtitles. A group of struggling art students eke out a hand-to-mouth life, barely making enough to eat and pay the rent; when an innocent nineteen-year-old girl with exceptional talent joins them, a complex love triangle ensues! A delightfully emotional story about the bonds of friendship, fickle whims of love, and the determination to achieve one's dream, Honey and Clover is a joy to watch and welcome addition to foreign film shelves. 116 minutes, color.
Prosaic, threadbare fun Honey & Clover opens at the home of Hanamoto Shuji, a scruffy, rumpled art professor who allows his students and students from other departments to crash at his home and have drinking parties. At this particular party, three female students are busy criticizing the appearance of a fellow student named Takemoto whose healthy appearance, cheerfulness, and ability to wear shorts differs him from is melancholy, alcoholic, and chain-smoking classmates, although he too does enjoy his alcohol and cigarettes. Others of note include Mayama, a serious young man who is in love with his boss: Harada Rika, and Yamada, a long-haired, large-eyed young woman whose love for Mayama goes unreciprocated. Needing more beer, Mayama and Takemoto rush upstairs to discover a young woman sporting disheveled hair and vivid clothing busily painting an abstract work. Later, they learn that the girl is Hanamoto Hagumi, nicknamed Hagu, Dr. Hanamoto's niece, whom the professor asks Takemoto to look after because the girl, although a brilliant artist, is quite naïve and unable to get by on her lonesome.
Takemoto, according to Mayama, instantly falls in love with the girl, and does everything in his power to be with her. Although shy, Hagu is quite receptive to Takemoto, but does not see her upperclassman's new found love for her. Things begin to become more troublesome when an older student, Morita, returns from his trip abroad. A gifted wood sculptor, Morita instantly recognizes Hagu's artistic ability, and although she is a bi put off by Morita's brusqueness at first, Hagu also recognizes Morita's ability and a close friendship forms. What is the poor boy Takemoto to do?
Based on a long running manga that stretched from 2000-06, Honey & Clover suffers from what quite a few series suffers from when based on a long running manga: crushing too many characters and storylines within a limited time space. However, being that there are also an anime version and a live action drama of the series, a number of these problems can be overlooked. Yet, the film, although quite comedic, is pretty prosaic and sticks primarily to the themes of love triangles and unrequited love. On the other hand, the film is lovely and the acting is well done with a number of well know stars. Aoi Yu as Hagu is adorable, but her childlike innocence makes her involvement, albeit unbeknownst to her, a little uncomfortable at times.
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