Kakera – A Piece of our life
The movie is based on the cult manga ‘Love Vibes’.
The story explores the love of two girls, one of which is lesbian(Riko), while the other… confused(Haru). Haru and Riko meet each other over a cheesecake in a coffee shop, overlapping their boring, mundane lives. From the beginning of the movie, until their meeting, all of their habits of everyday living are shown fully by the director. Either Haru drinking her coffee, eating her rice, being tortured by her boyfriend,etc or Riko working on her prosthetic limbs.
After their meeting, the story starts moving upwards. The girls are together, they are all they need. They have fun, they don’t need anybody else. They discover life. It is a gentle, loving relationship, quite the opposite of what Haru had with her boyfriend, who had always tried to have sex with her, torture her, and not care for her. A lesbian relationship is quite unusual, even to a society that has accepted such relationships, so it was a good decision to for the director not to include raw, sexual love scenes. Instead, he shows a tender love exploring sexuality.
They are both happy until Riko starts to get possessive. Haru starts seeing her old relationship again and runs off.
