Its release was delayed by RCA Victor executives, who thought the song did not fit Presley's new (and publicized) style. In April 1960, after Elvis Presley's two-year service in the United States Army, he recorded the song at the suggestion of manager Colonel Tom Parker "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" was Parker's wife, Marie Mott's, favorite song. In 1950 the Blue Barron Orchestra version reached the top twenty on the Billboard's Pop Singles chart. It was recorded several times in 1927-first by Charles Hart, with successful versions by Vaughn De Leath, Henry Burr, and the duet of Jerry Macy and John Ryan. " Are You Lonesome Tonight?" (sometimes stylized as Are You Lonesome To-night?) is a song written by Roy Turk and Lou Handman in 1926. Oh, and Toru’s sister Sanae (Honoka Matsumoto) is a famous author.For other uses, see Are You Lonesome Tonight? (disambiguation). Do you see where this is going? Of course you do. And to make it stop Toru musters ups the balls to ask Maori out? Blah blah, cycling, etc etc ice cream, yada yada fireworks, and Toru and Maori are in love despite vowing not to let that happen when he drops the bombshell on Izumi that he has the same congenital heart disease his dead mother did. One day at school – Maori’s the class hottie of course – the vaguely emo Toru (Shunsuke Michieda of boy band Naniwa Danshi, if you couldn’t tell from the hair) asks her on a date, but only because his friend (who we never really see again and whose storyline vanishes) is being bullied. Her best pal Izumi (Kotone Furukawa, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy) and her parents are the only people who know about her condition, because reasons. Turns out Maori was in a car wreck a few years earlier leaving her with anterograde amnesia and a fresh slate after every nap. Kind of like Guy Pearce in Memento, just with less personality. She looks at the cues on sticky notes around her bedroom and reads the (paper) journal she religiously keeps to figure out her life every morning. This time around, anmensia, terminal illness and a little harmless gaslighting come together in grand, gauzy, melodramatic fashion, starting with Maori Hino (television actor Riko Fukumoto, reuniting with her Love Me, Love Me Not director) getting up for school. You know what? Itemising these is giving me a headache. Director Takahiro Miki has been down this road before, with Fortuna’s Eye, the fantastical romance (based on a book by Naoki Hyakuta) about an unhappy young man who can see when people are going to die and saves a pretty, equally awkward girl from death. Needless to say, Even if This Love does its level best to live up to its misty forebears. By the standards of the form, and it is indeed a form now, Even if This Love Disappears from the World Tonight | 今夜、世界からこの恋が消えても goes out of its way to pile on the central heroine – and indeed it is almost always a “she” – giving her not only an illness that messes with her life, and will forever, it makes sure she only gets a whiff of a life in the moment.īased on the 2019 novel by Misaki Ichijo – which Barnes & Noble categorises as YA, uh oh – and shot in sunny tones, with soft edges and peopled by flawlessly skinned youths by DOP Hiro Yanagida, the shooter on I Want to Eat Your Pancreas, about – wait for it – a teenaged girl with a terminal illness whose bucket list diary is the impetus for a tragic romance with a classmate. What the fuck is going on in Japan? Why are its writers so miserable as to give us tome after tome after tome about inappropriate tragic romances and the most brazenly dysfunctional families ever? And why are readers consistently turning them, first, into runaway bestsellers, then audiences into box office monsters when the film adaptation invariably comes along? It’s been said the best insight into the national Japanese psyche is through its manga, but these soft focus romances are making a case for themselves, however dissonant the answers might be.
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