Director: Akiko Ohku
Notable Cast: Mayu Matsuoka, Daichi Watanabe, Anna Ishibashi, Takumi Kitamura
First love is a fickle concept – to an extent we have
all experienced this at varying degrees of success. Romanticised over the years
in many art forms, this intrinsic rite of passage is rooted in fantasy, usually
with one party falling head-over-heels for the other without truly knowing
them, rendering the former useless at expressing their desires as realizing
their dreams runs the life-ruining risk of shattering the illusion into a
thousand pieces and leaving all hopes tarnished and scattered. But you know
this, we all do. Telling you this has been a pointless endeavor as it
reinforces what we already accept. In much the same way, Akiko Ohku’s
frustratingly bland endurance test that is Tremble
All You Want covers the same ground as the words above whilst projecting
itself as a quirky rom-com socially awkward millennials will find relatable.