Uchiage hanabi, shita kara miru ka? Yoko kara miru ka?

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Uchiage hanabi, shita kara miru ka? Yoko kara miru ka?

2018

1h 30m

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Norimichi and Yusuke are both infatuated with their classmate Nazuna. But when Nazuna decides to run away from home, it's Norimichi she asks to join her. After their plans go awry, Norimichi discovers a magical ball that has the power to manipulate time and give them a second chance, but each reset brings new complications.

Critics Consensus

Fireworks seeks sparks in an ambitious blend of storytelling genres, but this misguided anime effort never truly takes flight.

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Chris Stuckmann

ChrisStuckmann.com

Jul 13, 2018

D+

This is probably one of the worst anime films I've seen that got a theatrical release in America.

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William Bibbiani

TheWrap

Jul 4, 2018

It's a treat to see a film about young love where the young lovers aren't wise beyond their years; instead, they're prone to making stupid mistakes out of inexperience and perfectly understandable fear.

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Christy Lemire

RogerEbert.com

Jul 4, 2018

1.5/4

A strange little movie that attempts the tricky feat of combining comedy, drama, sci-fi and romance, but it doesn't get those individual elements right so it never coheres as a whole.

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Panos Kotzathanasis

Asian Movie Pulse

Apr 13, 2020

"Fireworks" is a very entertaining anime that will put a smile on its audience through its simple but captivating romance and the surrealistic brush of the titular question.

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John Tones

Espinof

Jul 22, 2019

Akiyuki Shinbo's film (responsible for the anime of 'Yu Yu Hakusho', among others) works, especially on an aesthetic level, and if you forget about its irrelevance in other aspects. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Rachel Wagner

rachelsreviews.net

Feb 26, 2019

3/10

Some parts of the story worked and other parts felt very muddled and confusing.

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AN V

@RT55494999 Apr 26, 2026

Rating 11/10, IT'S THE BEST ANIME MOVIE I'VE EVER SEEN, and as for the ending, I didn't understand it at first, but I finally did and I really liked it. I highly recommend it. Greetings from Mexico🇲🇽

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Midnight M

@RT33839048 Aug 12, 2023

Beautiful movie, i related to the characters as I was about the same age as them when I first watched it back in like 2018. Beautifully animated, love the songs and it's a must see for teens, if anyone's into sci Fi, teen romance and drama

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Apr 11, 2022

The animation was not appealing to the eye. The storyline was horrendous. The characters made this even worse. This is barely a 1-star coming from the good music and decent art style.

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Jonathan O

@RT41230270 Jul 8, 2021

Fireworks is beautiful anime film and good voice dub actors,but the story, the plot and the editing is a mess on this film.

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Feb 23, 2021

I read the manga just to understand 'THAT' ending. It has a beautiful OST yet the movie is badly executed. The visuals are beautiful except for some bad CGI mixed in the movie. I'm not sure if I would recommend it.

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Nov 17, 2020

2017 was such great year. Sadly, Fireworks didn't embody any of it. One of my biggest issues in story telling is when real world issues are solved by fictional things. Okay so the oversexualized child has a hard time at home, let's just reverse time and fix it. A relatable issue with a solution that isn't possible. Sadly the best scene in the film is when the main character (I can't bring myself to remember anyone's name) gets punched. I showed this to a group of my friends and it made them all laugh. Given that it was supposed to be a tragic scene, I knew at that point we had a real stinker here. *sigh* not even the animation is that great, at least not for 2017 standards. Man it's the best part of the movie and that's no better than a 3/5. My God I hate this movie.

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Akiyuki Shinbo

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Suzu Hirose

Nazuna

Masaki Suda

Norimichi

Mamoru Miyano

Yusuke

Shintarō Asanuma

Jun'ichi

Toshiyuki Toyonaga

Kazuhiro

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Synopsis

Norimichi and Yusuke are both infatuated with their classmate Nazuna. But when Nazuna decides to run away from home, it's Norimichi she asks to join her. After their plans go awry, Norimichi discovers a magical ball that has the power to manipulate time and give them a second chance, but each reset brings new complications.

Director: Akiyuki Shinbo
Producer: Genki Kawamura
Screenwriter: Hitoshi Ône
Distributor: GKIDS
Production Co: SHAFT
Genre: Romance, Drama, Anime
Original Language: Japanese
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 4, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 7, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA): $522.6K
Runtime: 1h 30m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

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