Love Place: Shiawase no Katachi (2013)

Really sweet story, it's not giving much away to say it's a "triangle" story based on misunderstandings - a typical BL format. My rating for story is based on how it's handled. Touching love scenes. The boys are tops in the eye candy department. Plus why do you always feel sorry for the one causing the problems? There's a very nice comic episode too. Not sure the bit tacked on at the end adds much, but that's my opinion. It's relatively short but probably just right to fit in all the ingredients and hold interest with no padding. If you're a sucker for sweet stories, cute boys and with happy endings, watch it!!

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Two guys finally move in only to have the sister show up for an extended stay. Misunderstandings abound.

Total run-time: about 70 minutes. This is Part 2 of the Love Place series.

STORY: There's a lot more here as it's a continuation of Part 1 and because it's twice as long. Shouta is an idiot and a bit of a douche still, bumbling around misunderstanding everything and hurting people along the way and his boyfriend and sister are clueless that the time they spend together is hurting Shouta and of course Shouta prolonges the agony because he simply won't speak up. At least there are some touching scenes, especially that first kiss (hot) and the bathtub scene. Well, by the end of the movie, maybe Shouta grew as a person, who knows? They will probably live happily ever after. . . until Shouta's next misunderstanding. Also there is one super hilarious scene but in the back of my mind I can't help but think the actions amount to criminal assault; a joke gone too far. There is a short 10-min after-story that is tacked on. Not sure what the point was, but the two guys are hot and dressed to kill.

ACTING/CAST: The cast is very attractive, and there's very good chemistry between the 3 leads and they performed well.

MUSIC: Uh, there is one song in this that is decent but the rest of it seems like porno quality.

REWATCH: Sure, i'll watch it again with a friend.

TL;DR: Standard BL movie complete with a sulky lead who misunderstands everything while causing as much emotional damage as possible to those who love him.

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I always try to see the good side of things, even if I know isn’t that good I will try to stay positive, so naturally I don’t say this very often but... the plot of this movie felt poor, the acting was very stiff and I don’t think they had any chemistry at all... yeah they had sweet moments and stuff, but beyond that their acting felt awkward. Actually I believe Doumoto had more chemistry with the girl instead of his 'lover', and in a BL that’s the worst thing it can happen.

They only thing I liked was the scene when they take revenge on the former fiancé of Sota's sister, that was hilarious as hell xd

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