Name: Kimi no Yubisaki
Genre: Short
Released: 2007-04-27
Duration: 17 min
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Maki Horikita, Meisa Kuroki

Supremely bittersweet, considering it only goes for about 15 minutes. I was impressed by how it captured a specific teenage feeling and just sat with it for the entirety of the short, not doing much else, but certainly not needing to either.

It reminded me a bit of those parts in Days of Heaven where Linda Manz's character hangs out with that other young girl, only there are a few more heavy implications of romantic feelings here. I think what I was trying to say is that Your Fingertips drifts and evokes feelings in a somewhat comparable way to parts from what might be Terrence Malick's greatest film, and that's got to count for something.

It just ends at a point, unfortunately, but I otherwise found Your Fingertips quite moving and nostalgic for a short film. Could only find it on the cursed Dailymotion site with its ads every four minutes, but it was still an engaging experience, and worth sitting through those frequently obstrusive ads for.

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