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Amos Lassen wrote on 03/31/2011:

Wolfe Video has announced that it has acquired the DVD rights to “Love My Life” a movie about two beautiful Japanese students involved in a lesbian relationship. Director Koji Kawano adapted the screenplay from a Japanese manga written by EbineYamaji whose comics primarily deal with gay relationships. The film looks at the hardships of gay youth in a lighthearted way so there is not a great deal of drama in the film.
Ichiko and Eri are beautiful girls. Ichiko comes out to her father who then relays the information to her mother. Her father accepts the news well especially since he turns around and comes out to his daughter and further says that his deceased wife, her mother, was a lesbian. Eri is not as open about herself. She is a law student and wants very much to impress her father who is a lawyer.
The film faces the hardships of being the gay kid. Ichiko’s best friend, Take, is a gay male who is in the closet and is dealing with his own issues. The internal problems of the three students are what make this movie so real. There are no real problems and the only anti-gay feeling is seen when a bunch of classmates make fun of a fellow student who looks through a men’s magazine. There are no villains and no major conflicts. There are no gratuitous scenes of the girls having sex or even kissing. It is a straight (for lack of a better word) forward love story with all of the necessary melodrama and cute actors and a rock music soundtrack. It focuses on the relationship of the two girls and we learn a lot about their characters and their lives.
The film is charmingly sweet but seems to be lacking in substance but this really doesn’t matter. It is one of those rare feel-good experiences that we do not get a lot of in the genre of gay cinema. The story is told matter-of-factly and candidly without having to resort to soft core porn. The few moments of intimacy that we do see are handled tastefully and with sensitivity.
I think that the main issue dealt with is dealing with regret and because of this, the movie is like a breath of fresh air.