These days I only visit the movie theatre when I absolutely must watch the movie on a big screen. So this year I only saw Howl’s Moving Castle. I’ve heard that Be With You is good but it didn’t give me a compelling reason to watch it at the theatre. Mainly because the male lead was not Takuya Kimura! Anyway, I’ve just bought the DVD and I must try to watch it when I have the time. For now, I’ll just be contented with the synopsis.

Widower Takumi (Shidou Nakamura) lives a quiet life with his six-year-old son Yuji (Akashi Takei) after the loss of wife and mother Mio (Yuko Takeuchi). Yuji unfailingly remembers her promise to him: “I’ll be with you again in a year’s time, when the rains come.” On the first anniversary of her passing, Takumi and Yuji are taking a walk in the woods when they come across a woman sheltering from a monsoon downpour. She bears an uncanny resemblance to Mio, but has no recollection of who she is or what she is doing there. Family life resumes from where they left off, while Takumi and Mio’s memories of their first encounter in high school come flooding back. However, their new life together is interrupted by the discovery of Mio’s old diary, which reveals the secrets of her past and how they must say goodbye once more in six weeks time…

Anyway, it seems that the two leads actually fell in love and Yuko is now pregnant with Shidou’s baby! Whoo-hoo! Some lightning fast screen romance!