Both stories are about a man and a woman who live next to each other without being aware of it...they are so close and yet so far..
Turn Left, Turn Right takes more of a romantic-comedy approach while Oto-na-ri is more of a slow romantic..
Turn Left, Turn Right takes more of a romantic-comedy approach while Oto-na-ri is more of a slow romantic..
It's a slower-paced film that's a bit different from the typical romances out there. Both of these films leave you anticipating an eventual meeting that YOU know needs to happen, but the characters are clueless to.
Both talk about a man and a woman crossing paths but never meeting. This one is more calm and subtle.
Miho, a high school student, refuses to approve of her widowed mother's potential husband when they meet each other at a restaurant. As she flounces out of the restaurant, she drops her cell phone. At the moment there is an earthquake, and she drops her cell phone down a staircase. The phone is found by Tokijiro, a boy that lives in 1912
Minato is a young girl who was traumatized at a young age by being abandoned by her parents and left with her senile grandmother. She frequently corresponds with a pen-pal named Night, a boy about the same age as her that she's never actually seen in person. Although Minato and Night are very different - Minato is upbeat while Night is brooding, they get along anyway and she regularly updates him on the happenings in her daily life. Minato is even willing to confide in Night that she's falling in love with a boy she's recently met named Sho.
Singer Hyeon Seok develops problems with his hearing (Menieres syndrome) and has to stop his recordings. He notices a picture of Hokkaido in a magazine and decides to travel there. He eventually arrives in a a small village in Hokkaido for rest. While there, he reminisces about the old days. The owner of the inn offers him a Japanese meal. There he meets a bright cheerful girl named Megumi.
