It has been much too long since I’ve blogged!

I feel extremely bad for neglecting my blog );
So, review of the day today is a touching Japanese film starring young yet charming singer YUI.

“Yui is a Japanese singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actress. She is currently signed to Sony Music Records Japan and attached to the talent agency Stardust Promotion.”

- Wikipedia.

Personally I think that Yui has a lovely mellow and soft tuneful voice that calms the soul however her vocal ranges are rather limited in the low regions. Funnily, I discovered her while listening to Fiona Sit’s cover of YUI’s “Tomorrow’s Way” Which is an amazing song, in both Japanese and Cantonese. [The one linked is Japanese]. I advise you listen to both very strongly! In instantly falling in love her with her music and stumbling upon “Goodbye-Days” one of her songs that features herself in a movie, that is also used in some scenes of the MV. I went and searched for the movie and it happened to be named “Taiyo No Uta“.

Taiyo No Uta/Song Of The Sun is a touching story about a young girl named Amane Kaoru who has the rare disease; Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) which is the inability to repair skin cells that are damaged by the Suns harmful UV rays. Each day she would not attend school, instead, she would sleep during the day and when night fell she’d go out with her acoustic guitar, sit in her favourite spot in an isolated park and and begin playing it. When she was up in her room and the sun was out, she would sit by her window and watch a boy who played around and dreamed of becoming a good surfer.

*Spoilers*
Eventually they meet [A strange meeting] and then a roller-coaster of events happen, some sad, some happy. Most sweet and touching. It’s definitely a movie worth watching, including lovely scenery, acting and music.
Portraying life through a girls eyes, whose sweet heart and talent made her prominent. Yet suffered what would become her downfall, Ironic and Upsetting. But she was loved to the very end.
Shortly after finishing the movie I took the courtesy of finding Yui’s albums and intently listening to them and though some songs weren’t as catchy as the ones I mentioned earlier, it is still a lovely compilation of acoustic music and heartful singing.

Mistune – FantasticFiveStars.