Every Day a Good Day (2018) User Reviews

A part of life

[EasternZZ · 8/10 · 13 July 2019]

This movie is about accidentally finding out your passion in life, without knowing it. Sometimes you just do things because you want to try something new, and eventually it becomes your passion. This is a slow movie, but it does have some good acting and a few emotional scenes.

It is about a girl who finishes school but her perception of reality is false. She cannot find a job, her boyfriend leaves her, and she find slight happiness in the process of making and serving tea.

There are mostly actresses in this movie (I think there are only 2 - 3 actors). At least 80% of the movie takes place in the tea room, but because of the story it works. The story does move pretty fast, for example one scene takes place in a day, then the next scene just fast forwards a year later. It covers about 25 years of our main lady's life in under 2 hours, but that is not the important part. It is about how fast time moves, and how things change over time.

Anyways, it is a good film and we get to see a legendary Japanese actress one more time before her death.

8/10

Life is a bowl of green tea

[flcntk3-856-986017 · 7/10 · 17 January 2019]

This is a movie in which life is a bowl of green tea. The Japanese tea ceremony becomes a philosophical and ritualistic approach to honor, to respect, to become harmonious and exacting as a mirrored counter part of the cyclical and seasonal changes in life where things are repetitive and yet imperceptibly different as time goes by. There is a moment in the film in which the camera seemingly detached itself from the story and zooms into the level of pulsating cells of a leaf. That out of context moment is exactly what this film is about. Life!

Sometimes life don't go your way

[RaidersOfTheLostCommunist · 8/10 · 1 April 2021]

Movie is basically about a girl who went to college, and like a lot of us had all these dreams and aspirations, but things don't go her way. She ends up taking a green tea class mostly because there isn't anything to do, and she eventually finds herself spending the next 20+ years learning it.

She sees her friends move on in life, get married, but she has no luck.

It is a heartwarming movie with a bittersweet ending.

8/10.

it takes time

[Hombredelfuturo · 7/10 · 5 August 2020]

Yes; comprehend Life is such a difficult thing but sometimes you are lucky and at some point some one suggest or show a way to the right Teacher that helps yo find a Path. Little by little; takes time but is possible.

-Great camera work and shots. At first glance is a simple non sense plot but after the first 1/3 you start to see the Complexity onto all that apparent simplicity. All the little things count. Somehow I ended with sadness but is worth to watch.

The way of tea or the way of life

[halewis-39555 · 10/10 · 25 April 2019]

Nichi Nichi Kore Kojitsu - Every day a good day. (100 minutes)

One Japanese college student - Noriko, who was about to graduate the following year, has always been viewed as dull and having little achievements in life, was once recommended by her mother to attend Chado class, learning about the traditional tea ceremony, not knowing that it would benefit a great deal and account for her sanctuary to pursue happiness one day.

The movie quite actually portrayed different areas of life throughout her bad days and her good days without focusing on them in accordance with the way of tea, but it unfolded them one event at a time for us to sense its purpose and to figure out how to polish self-awareness towards self-fulfilment.

Chado is a complex series of movements you can absorb very little from it if you overanalyze or to the contrary, overlook, too often. It's hard to learn by heart if your mind keeps asking why. Merely like how we form our perception, as a watcher, we would look at this tea drinking experience from the harmonious balance conducted between guest, host and natural surroundings; from accompanying elements such as the bowls, the sweets, or the wooden tea room's ink painting; but most satisfying above all, from the stillness in the nick of time between passing and arriving seasons. We would enjoy it to the fullest if we centralize ourselves in it.

It took Noriko 24 years later to genuinely understand the meaning of "Every day is a good day" but she was eventually able to have realized her dream.

So beautiful. Deep with meaning, emotions and life lessons.

[saucy_design · 10/10 · 21 February 2020]

This was so relaxing, peaceful a graceful, yet carried some strong messages. Beautifully executed and directed. I will probably watch this again. Maybe even more than once more.

The flavour of Green Tea....

[GyatsoLa · 8/10 · 21 October 2021]

A lot of Japanese film makers make their 'Ozu' film, and thematically this certainly fits the Ozu mould, although perhaps wisely the film maker here doesn't try to copy the Ozu style.

The film is quite simple - it follows a young woman as she finds meaning through her weekly saturday classes on the tea ceremony. Over the years she gradually comes to appreciate the deeper meaning behind the ceremony. And that really is it. But what could be a somewhat boring film is anything but - the lovely performances and nice pacing brings us into the lives of the women who love the ceremony and it becomes all very moving, and not a little enlightening.

It is also, sadly, the last film by the great actress Kirin Kiki, but what a lovely last performance she gave us.

Superficial acting, plot and tea philosophy

[ncolic · 2/10 · 15 April 2020]

As a tea ceremony practitioner I was quite excited about the movie; but I found that it doesn't offer much beyond some nice pictures and a sense of seasonality. However, the acting is horrible even by Japanese standards, and the plot is so unmotivated it verges on the comical. (The pain of the protagonist's loss of father or boy friend are hard to relate to, since we're not introduced really to these characters.) Most annoying, however, I found the missed opportunity to showcase the spirit of the Japanese tea ceremony, which here is reduced to 'work hard' and 'we don't know why we do it that way'. Even the teacher's lecture of ichigo ichie (every meeting is unique) is unrelated to the rest of the movie and representation of the protagonists tea education; and the simplistic visualisation of the waterfall hanging scroll is the pinnacle of unimaginative film making.