We Couldn't Become Adults
2021 · Movie · TV-MA · 124 min · ★ 6.4 · 65% critics
After a social media prompt stirs old memories, a drifting man in midlife looks back on love, friendships, and the choices that shaped him from the 1990s onward. As the past resurfaces, he searches for the hopes he once carried and what became of them.
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Details
- Original title
- ボクたちはみんな大人になれなかった
- Years
- 2021
- Release date
- 2021-11-05
- Language
- Japanese
- Rated
- TV-MA
- Runtime
- 124 min
- Max quality
- UHD
- Critic score
- 65/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.4/10 (53 votes)
About
If you like reflective relationship dramas such as Just Remembering, this offers a wistful, heartfelt look at memory and missed chances; Not for you if you want fast pacing, light romance, or easy emotional closure.
Pros: emotionally rich story; strong lead performance; moving sense of loss | Cons: reverse timeline may challenge; somber mood throughout
Themes
- based on novel or book
- nostalgia
- love interest
- retrospective
- lost love
- 1990s
- self reflection
- bittersweet
Cast & crew
Mirai Moriyama
as Makoto Satō
Sairi Ito
as Kaori Kato
Masahiro Higashide
as Kenta Sekiguchi
Sumire
as Sū
Atsushi Shinohara
as Toshihiko Nanase
Yuko Oshima
as Megumi Ishida
Masato Hagiwara
as Hideaki Miyoshi
Takehiro Hira
as Keiichiro Sanai
Moemi Katayama
as Ayaka Iwai
Masanobu Takashima
as Takayuki Onda
Directed by Yoshihiro Mori