If you want to read my review of The door into summer: To a future with you, read this post. 夏への扉 is a world where cryogenic sleep, time travel and teleportation exist, an inventor loses his company to his girlfriend and adoptive uncle. After 30 frozen years, he uses his humanoid robot to go back in time and change the past.
Takakura Soichiro(Kento Yamazaki) lost his birth parents and adoptive parents at a very young age. The adoptive sister, Matsushita Riko (Kaya Kiyohara), went to live with her uncle, Matsushita Kazuhito (Hidekazu Mashima) and it was left to him to dedicate himself to electronics and mechanical engineering as a hobby and profession.
“It seems my destiny is to lose the people I love.”
Shiraishi Rin (Natsuna Watanabe) is Soichiro’s girlfriend and accounting secretary at the company he controls along with his adoptive uncle. Due to his uncle’s manipulation, Soichiro donates part of his shares to Shiraishi. Making her the robotics company’s third shareholder.
“Kazuto and I discussed it and decided it together.”
Soichiro is surprised to see that his girlfriend has set up a plot with his adoptive uncle and in a desperate act, trying to escape the devastating reality, as we all would try, he joins the cryogenic sleep program for several decades. With technological advances, when he wakes up, he finds his own invention and asks for help to go back in time and change the past.
The Door Into Summer: japanese movie review
For some of you it may seem strange, for others it may not. But, the reality is that Riko-chan secretly loves Soichiro, the adopted brother. Influenced by him and her father, she loves robotics and helped her brother where she could so he could focus on inventions. After her parents’ death, Riko moved in with her uncle.
“Won’t you miss me?”
Naturally, when she found out that Kazuto betrayed Soichiro, she was heartbroken to see her beloved adopted brother lose something he loved once again. Inventions and the robotics company.
She was about to change schools. And, consequently, she was going to lose contact with Soichiro. But, moved by the pain of the news, she decided she wasn’t going to change schools anymore and found the courage to declare her love.
“I kept this to myself for years! I thought it was wrong to tell you. Was difficult. I always loved you.”
Responsibly, Soichiro refused Riko-chan’s declaration of love and every offer of help, seeing in her only the teenage sister.
Riko-chan was very upset about being rejected and with all these sad things happening in Soichiro’s life at the same time, the idea of cryogenic sleep came up.
“Dream until your troubles pass.”
This slogan greatly reflects the feeling of people in situations of extreme sadness. There are days when you don’t want to wake up and if you wake up, you don’t want to get out of bed. The only desire is to sleep until everything is resolved.
The Door Into Summer review: the future in 2025
I believe that the future of The door into summer: To a future with you is not very different from what ours will be. Cars are autonomous and everything is done by smartphone.
Furthermore, neither money nor paper are used anymore. The only discrepancies, in my opinion, are the fact that the gold no longer has any value and the android, PETE (Naohito Fujiki).
But, of course, the super-advanced, fully autonomous humanoid robots are the coolest idea of the future on film. I’m disregarding time travel because I don’t know if that will ever be possible.
Why you should watch The Door Into Summer
I won’t leave The Door Into Summer ending explained or a download link here, but despite the betrayals that Soichiro suffered, it was legit to see that the consequences of his good character in the past were positive in the future. Showing that it pays to be a correct person.
Plus, it’s not often you get to see a Japanese sci-fi movie with time travel, snarky androids, and lots of plot twists.
The Door Into Summer trailer
I really feel that you will like this one. So I decided to do this Natsu e no tobira review. Go ahead, immerse yourself in the story, the environment and the soundtrack.
And come back later to tell me what you think in the comments. This was one of the best Japanese science fictions I’ve watched.
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