| | |  | Gimme Sugar | Home » » » Love My Life | | | | | | | Description: | | Opposites attract in this charming love story from Japan. Ichiko is a happy go lucky girl who falls in love with serious Eri, a fellow student at the university. Ichiko wants to tell the world about their love---beginning with her father. But gay romance is not quite as easy as Ichiko envisions. When she comes out, she learns surprising family secrets. And Eri's studies soon are keeping them apart. | | | Features: | |
• Opposites attract in this charming love story from Japan. Ichiko is a happy go lucky girl who falls in love with serious Eri, a fellow student at the university. Ichiko wants to tell the world about their love beginning with her father. But gay romance is not quite as easy as Ichiko envisions. When she comes out, she learns surprising family secrets. And Eri s studies soon are keeping them apart.
| | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Rei Yoshii, Asami Imajuku, Naomi Akimoto, Miyoko Asada, Kami Hiraiwa | | Director:
| Kôji Kawano | | Format:
| Color, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | | Language:
| Japanese | | Subtitle:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Wolfe Video | | Run Time:
| 96 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| July 15, 2008 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 9 reviews |
| | | | Customer Reviews: | |
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7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
 Nice enough...Aug 30, 2008
By Boston Lesbian
"Happily Married in Massachusetts"
I watched this movie today. It is a good movie, not fantastic but nice enough. I agree with another reviewer who said the first part of the movie and the rest are very different, almost like another movie. The beginning of the movie is a sweet depiction of the relationship between the two twenty something year old women. In the middle it is less frothy and has more conflict and angst. I won't mention the ending; I don't want to spoil the ending for anyone.
If you are looking for steamy and graphic sex scenes you won't find that here. This movie reminds me of our lesbian movies of 10 or 20 years ago. It is more simple and innocent than the usual fare today. Knowing nothing of lesbians in Japan I don't know whether this movie is groundbreaking or usual. I wish there was an interview with the writers and directors of Love My Life and perhaps a documentary on lesbian life in Japan. It would be helpful to watch this movie in the context of GLBT life in Japan.
The extras on the DVD are few. They include deleted scenes, without subtitles and a Japanese trailer.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Love My LifeJun 11, 2009
By Francis Tuifao
This is a very interesting movie. It is not what I expected, but there were few interesting scenes that I've enjoyed. Overall, I like this movie. Thank you.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Love My Life was amazing...Jul 12, 2011
By Nads
I must say, this movie depicted one of society's flaws in an enjoyable way. In my opinion, this was a top movie in its category. I enjoyed more than "Spider Lilies" and "Saving Face." I highly recommend this movie.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
CuteJan 31, 2009
By T.
"H"
Well this is no Hollywood movie by any means but its a cute movie all the same. I can relate to this movie in some ways which is why I loved it. I am more like Eri, (Yes, I'm female) the serious one. My girlfriend is the happy, bouncy one like Ichiko. Ok, maybe not that bouncy but pretty close. Lol Our personalities are very different, but we still click and we love each other. Over all I think the movie was real. At least to me. Some say its a little flat but it does tug at the heart strings a bit. So I say take it for what it is, a cute movie about two girls in love.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 A movie about two cute Japanese girls in love can't be all badDec 08, 2008
By Joseph P. Menta, Jr.
Cute, bouncy movie about two young lesbians in Japan who decide to come out to their families. One girl has a pretty easy time of it, and in fact gets one upped by her dad when he happily returns the favor of her honesty with some revelations of his own. The other girl has a grumpy dad and more of a problem with the whole thing. But things never get too depressing, and in fact it's easy to believe from the overall fun, upbeat tone that "Love My Life" was adapted from a Japanese manga series, the Japanese version of comic books. Pretty innocent overall, this movie would probably get a PG-13 here in the states if not for our manic paranoia about gay subject matter and even fleeting nudity. Extras consist of a few deleted scenes (without English subtitles, unlike the film itself) and a nice selection of trailers highlighting other interesting-looking fringe movies. "Love My Life" isn't very memorable, but one can do a lot worse.
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