The story of "Sea Street Diary" takes place in kamakura, the ancient capital of the sea, in a small town formed by the mountains. In this humble corner lived the four sisters of the Kada family. Their father ran away from home with his lover in his early years, and their mother simply left her daughters in the care of their grandmother. After the death of her grandmother, her granddaughters inherited the large house with a long history. The eldest sister, Kada Yuki (Haruka Ayase), who took on the family responsibility too early, devotes herself to taking care of her two younger sisters, Kano (Masami Nagasawa) and Chika (Xia Fan), growing up healthily. On this day, the news of his father's death reached the sisters. They travel together to attend their father's funeral and meet their half-sister Suzu Asano (Hirose Silk), whom they have never met. Xu is close to the blood, and fortunately invites Suzu to move to Kamakura before leaving. Not long after, with a vision for his sisters, Suzu stepped into the house where his father once lived. The four seasons pass, and the stories of the sisters are quietly staged...
There is a saying in Japan called "material mourning" ---- to make the deepest feeling for everything in the outside world, and to praise the sorrow of lost life. Many times, people often appreciate the magnificence of the sunset more than the sun in the daytime, and thus have the sigh of "the sunset is infinitely good, but it is near dusk". The view of material sorrow is that things in reality are only things, and only the beauty of the moment that is conceived under special circumstances is eternal. This concept of beauty cannot be judged by reason, but can only be felt by intention and intuition.
Like most Japanese literary and art films, "Sea Street Diary" is clean, concise and beautiful, with a cold tone and fading, always giving people a distance and a fresh tone. In the plot, there is no surging heart, nor is there a tear-jerking sadness. With a slow plot advancement, the viewer's emotional accumulation is like "cherry blossoms withering naturally, but people are inexplicably sentimental", so that the beauty of material mourning jumps and moves. In terms of details, it is full of feminine beauty, and uses small scenes, small props, and small plots to convey the rich and varied characters and small and subtle psychological feelings. As Haruki Murakami says, "I do love the insignificant details of everyday life, and I really like to observe how all kinds of people relate to the world through these details." "
This film is exactly like this, starting from a funeral and ending with a funeral, when the Ziwei flower appeared twice in Qianjia's hands, I realized that these four women had spent a year under this roof. Day after day, the four seasons change, but they still have that attachment in their hearts, just like the plum tree, the scale that marks the height in the old house, which has been standing in the flow of the four seasons, and their lives have become the reality of the old house and daily things.
The director arranged for both of them to leave after the cherry blossoms bloomed, and it seems that all the hardships of life were also put down after feeling the beauty of the cherry blossoms. As the line at the end of the line" "If you can still feel the good when you say goodbye to this world, it is also a beautiful thing!" ”
Time flows, the seasons change, and the family affection is a simple and simple world that the film presents to us.