![]() Less than a year before her death, however, Miwako met Ryusei, a lovestruck young man who becomes a dear friend to Miwako, while remaining hopeful for more. Self-assured, thick-skinned, and consciously distant from other people, she only had one true friend: Chie. Miwako Sumida was a student at Waseda University. Our three protagonists – Ryusei, Chie, and Fumi – are left to pick up the pieces of their own lives, recently shattered by the death of their friend. While working at a mountain retreat, she took a ladder into the forest and hanged herself from a large tree. The titular Miwako Sumida is the axel around which this wheel of complex characters spins, each one taking a turn to narrate the story and impress upon us the kind of person Miwako Sumida was. ![]() ![]() Set during the shift from 80s to 90s Tokyo, as Japan’s great economic bubble is getting ready to burst, The Perfect World of Miwako Sumidatraces the lives of a handful of lovable but flawed young women and men. ![]()
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