MY SUNSHINE

With Keitatsu Koshiyama, Kiara Takanashi

The enduring appeal of ice-dancing casts a spell over a film steeped in the bittersweet nostalgia of first love.  Set at a small-town skating rink in picturesquely wintry Hokkaido, Japan, MY SUNSHINE sets up a delicate triangle of association between two young skaters and their coach, with emotional fallout for all three.  For Takuya, a bullied loner, it’s love at first sight when he spies Sakura, a girl his own age gliding and twirling to the strains of Claire de Lune.  The coach senses the chance to recruit an ice-dancing partner for his most talented protege.  Unrequited adolescent crushes have unforeseen consequences when Sakura begins to understand that the handsome coach she dreams of is gay.  In Japanese with English subtitles.