Saido kâ ni inu (Dog in a Sidecar)

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Audience Member I'm a sidecar rider, my passenger is a dog. I watched this movie for those reasons. I'm sorry I did. Just rubbish. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member A very enjoyable friendship movie between a 10 year girl Kaoru and her father's lover Yoko who takes the little girl under her wing. Dog in a Sidecar is a short, thoughtful movie about growing up and taking the bumps life gives. Kaoru is earnest and sweet, but her environment and parents do not allow her to fully grow as a person and it is a woman from outside the fold of her daily life that changes her. It is these interactions with the other, the unknown and unfamiliar that change Kaoru. Would she have been the same hard-nosed woman if she had not met Yoko or would she have become as weak-willed as her father if her mother had stayed with the family? Kana Matsumoto is incredible and so adorable as Kaoru and the chemistry she shares with Yuko Takeuchi is wonderful. The rapport, their interaction and what they learn from each other is what drives this movie forward. This movie is an absolute delight to see, a feel good movie filled with nostalgia and fond memories of younger days. Highly recommended. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member A very enjoyable friendship movie between a 10 year girl Kaoru and her father's lover Yoko who takes the little girl under her wing. Dog in a Sidecar is a short, thoughtful movie about growing up and taking the bumps life gives. Kaoru is earnest and sweet, but her environment and parents do not allow her to fully grow as a person and it is a woman from outside the fold of her daily life that changes her. It is these interactions with the other, the unknown and unfamiliar that change Kaoru. Would she have been the same hard-nosed woman if she had not met Yoko or would she have become as weak-willed as her father if her mother had stayed with the family? Kana Matsumoto is incredible and so adorable as Kaoru and the chemistry she shares with Yuko Takeuchi is wonderful. The rapport, their interaction and what they learn from each other is what drives this movie forward. This movie is an absolute delight to see, a feel good movie filled with nostalgia and fond memories of younger days. Highly recommended. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Essentially a performance vehicle for Yuko Takeuchi as a flitting free spirit who drops in on the life of a young girl (a fine complimentary performance by Kana Matsumoto) during her summer vacation. The interaction of the hesitant girl and the carefree woman is enjoyable. There's a subtle, dark underlining throughout the movie but the deliberately disjointed pacing and quirky plot details made me suddenly realize that this was a story being told through the eyes of a child. That innocence-coloured glasses we look through manages to ease the heavier story details. The only real problem I had with this movie was the bookend story. I didn't really understand the connection the movie was trying to make with that summer story from 20 years ago and present day and the movie ends rather abruptly. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 06/30/08 Full Review Audience Member Pretty interesting, but also totally pointless. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member The beauty of simplicity. I'd love that kind of friend to guide me at that age. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Read all reviews

Saido kâ ni inu (Dog in a Sidecar)

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