Photo: Naoko Ogigami's Megane
Megane is the type of cutesy-quaint foreign import that's just about insufferable. Naoko Ogigami's tale concerns a middle-aged woman named Taeko (Satomi Kobayashi) who arrives on an island in the south of Japan and takes up temporary residence at a remote inn run by Yuji (Ken Mitrsuishi) that no one has frequented in three years because all prospective visitors get lost on account of the proprietor's simplistic maps (tee hee!). The only other people around (aside from some random kids) are rude high school biology teacher Haruna (Mikako Ichikawa) and quiet, elderly Sakura (Masako Mota), who visits the inn every spring, organizes arm-waving exercise classes on the beach, and makes the best shaved ice in the whole gosh darn world. Nick Schager
Megane is the type of cutesy-quaint foreign import that's just about insufferable. Naoko Ogigami's tale concerns a middle-aged woman named Taeko (Satomi Kobayashi) who arrives on an island in the south of Japan and takes up temporary residence at a remote inn run by Yuji (Ken Mitrsuishi) that no one has frequented in three years because all prospective visitors get lost on account of the proprietor's simplistic maps (tee hee!). The only other people around (aside from some random kids) are rude high school biology teacher Haruna (Mikako Ichikawa) and quiet, elderly Sakura (Masako Mota), who visits the inn every spring, organizes arm-waving exercise classes on the beach, and makes the best shaved ice in the whole gosh darn world. Nick Schager
