Calmi Cuori Appassionati
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Calmi Cuori Appassionati ( aka Reisei to Jōnetsu no Aida; lit. "Between Calmness and Passion") is a 2001 Japan
ese movie directed by Isamu Nakae, starring Yutaka Takenouchi and Kelly Chen
. It is a love story about two students who met at an art college in Japan. The film is based on a 1999 novel which was a best seller in Japan.
The title tune is "Wild Child" from the album A Day Without Rain
by Enya
.
Living in Florence
, Italy
, Junsei Agata is studying to be a restoration expert who specializes in fine art. He feels the life is empty. He was clinging to the memory of one girl with whom he spent his school days. Her name was Aoi. One day, he happens to learn Aoi is in Milan
and finds she lives with a wealthy American business man. He finds Aoi live in a different world and runs away to Japan.
He has remembered a 10 year old promise. When he was a college student in Japan, he made a promise with Aoi to meet on the top of the Duomo
in Florence on her 30th birthday. He hangs on to one slight hope that Aoi must have remembered the promise. He decides to returns to Florence to prove the love between him and Aoi were true.
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese movie directed by Isamu Nakae, starring Yutaka Takenouchi and Kelly Chen
Kelly Chen
Kelly Chen is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer and actress. Kelly has also been known as a diva in Asia. She has a great success in Asia Entertainment industry with nearly 20 million record sales of 38 albums...
. It is a love story about two students who met at an art college in Japan. The film is based on a 1999 novel which was a best seller in Japan.
The title tune is "Wild Child" from the album A Day Without Rain
A Day Without Rain
-Wild Child:"Midnight Blue" -Only Time :...
by Enya
Enya
Enya is an Irish singer, instrumentalist and songwriter. Enya is an approximate transliteration of how Eithne is pronounced in the Donegal dialect of the Irish language, her native tongue.She began her musical career in 1980, when she briefly joined her family band Clannad before leaving to...
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Synopsis
Florence
Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
, Junsei Agata is studying to be a restoration expert who specializes in fine art. He feels the life is empty. He was clinging to the memory of one girl with whom he spent his school days. Her name was Aoi. One day, he happens to learn Aoi is in Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
and finds she lives with a wealthy American business man. He finds Aoi live in a different world and runs away to Japan.
He has remembered a 10 year old promise. When he was a college student in Japan, he made a promise with Aoi to meet on the top of the Duomo
Duomo
Duomo is a term for a cathedral church. The formal word for a church that is presently a cathedral is cattedrale; a Duomo may be either a present or a former cathedral . Some, like the Duomo of Monza, have never been cathedrals, although old and important...
in Florence on her 30th birthday. He hangs on to one slight hope that Aoi must have remembered the promise. He decides to returns to Florence to prove the love between him and Aoi were true.
Cast
- Yutaka Takenouchi - Agata Junsei
- Kelly ChenKelly ChenKelly Chen is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer and actress. Kelly has also been known as a diva in Asia. She has a great success in Asia Entertainment industry with nearly 20 million record sales of 38 albums...
- Aoi - Roberto Brunetti - Luca
- Valeria Cavalli - Giovanna
- Luciano FedericoLuciano FedericoLuciano Federico is an Italian actor. He starred in the 1998 film, Radiofreccia.-Selected filmography:*Una piccola storia, directed by Stefano Chiantini *The Passion, directed by Mel Gibson...
- Angelo - Silvia Ferreri - Daniela
- Arnoldo FoàArnoldo FoàArnoldo Foà is an Italian film actor. He has appeared in over 130 films since 1938. He was born in Ferrara, Italy.-Selected filmography:* Un giorno nella vita * Bellezze in bicicletta...
- The Restorer - Reona HirotaReona Hirotais a Japanese actress. She won the Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 13th Yokohama Film Festival for Ōte and Yumeji.-Filmography:* Ōte * Yumeji * Calmi Cuori Appassionati -References:...
- Asami - Nana KataseNana Kataseis a Japanese actress.Katase portrayed Kiyomi Takada in Death Note: The Last Name. She also released a number of albums. "Fantasy" was one of her songs and it was in the third intro of Hikaru no Go. It was part of the "Galaxy, Telepathy, and Fantasy" album and after "Necessary" was made as her single...
- Hisanori Koshimizu
- Tatsuo Matsumura - Seiji Agata
- Ryôta Matsushima
- Marisa MerliniMarisa MerliniMarisa Merlini was an Italian character actress active in Italy's post-World War II cinema. Merlini appreared in over fifty films during her career, which spanned from World War II to 2005...
- Gina - Shinya Owada - Kiyomasa Agata
- Kenichi Sano
- Yusuke SantamariaYusuke Santamaria, born , is an actor and singer born March 12, 1971 in Ōita Ōita Prefecture, Japan who premiered primarily on Japanese networks such as JDTV and JHJ. He was best known for his work on many popular game shows, television programs, and shorts. He is also known simply as "Yūsuke"...
- Takashi - Kippei Shiina - Takanashi
- Ryoko ShinoharaRyoko ShinoharaRyoko Shinohara is a Japanese singer and actress. She began her career as a singer in the Japanese female pop band Tokyo Performance Doll, and after its break-up, began a solo singing career with producer Tetsuya Komuro...
- Memi - Sansei Shiomi - The Lawyer
- Michael WongMichael Wong (actor)Michael Fitzgerald Wong aka Wong Man-Tak is a Chinese-American and a Hong Kong based actor, director, singer and producer.He is fluent in English, but not so in Chinese, which is reflected in many of the characters he has portrayed. His most notable film is the 1998 film Beast Cops which won a...
- Marvin Lai
External links
- Official site (Japanese)
- IMDb entry