Two Sixth-Graders are Drifting Home
A Japanese anime movie that brings survival, adventure, and friendship to the big screen.

A couple of rich women get captured by a group of terrorists, a crack team of mercenaries called Operation Hit Squad are called in to rescue them.
A Japanese anime movie that brings survival, adventure, and friendship to the big screen.
I hadn’t heard of it either until recently—and yet, it’s one of the highest grossing movies of all time.
Despite its glaring flaws, First Girl I Loved is not entirely undeserving of a watch. For people who can handle the more difficult aspects of the story and graphic scenes, it is worth looking into. It’s not a film worthy of rewatch, but it may still resonate somewhat with those who need a story like this. It is a genuine, if flimsy attempt at a coming-of-age tale. Were the film to be directed by someone with experiences more similar to Anne, it would likely be more powerful--as it is, it feels like a man’s perspective of what it means to come to terms with your identity as a lesbian.
A film about family and sacrifice... and carnivorous locusts coming after you.
People are so much deeper and far more extraordinary than what gender they were assigned at birth.