Full Moon, by Aki Shimazaki

Write about love has in Aki shimazaki a unique consideration, some existentialist flashes that range from the emptiness of heartbreak to the paradoxical inexhaustible spring of reciprocated infatuation. Waters that flow parallel and that awaken the same sensation from nowhere as soon as the last drink is drained.

Between deficiencies, spite or fullness, we intuit that, indeed, love is the only engine that moves the world. Because hate only destroys. And even the bitter pain of love awakens those melancholic notes of pretended immortality from the need for the endless kiss. Memory is in charge of filling everything together and putting the captions on the memories of epic love. Without memory, love can fade or, why not, awaken ingenuity towards unsuspected conquests.

In a small Japanese town, the married couple of Tetsuo and Fujiko Niré live peacefully in a residence in whose gardens all kinds of cicadas sing. They are now grandparents, and they moved there when she, Fujiko, started showing symptoms of Alzheimer's. And one morning, when getting up, Fujiko, surprised, does not recognize Tetsuo, her husband.

Thanks to an improvised help, Fujiko calms down: a nurse at the residence tells her that Tetsuo is her boyfriend, the fiancé that, according to ancient Japanese tradition, she has met thanks to a meeting, a meow. From that moment on, Tetsuo will not only face situations that will disconcert him, but, above all, he will have to decide if he wants to become the boyfriend of his wife for decades. Because the surprises have only just begun.

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