![]() Ryusei’s older sister, Fumi, is the owner of an art studio she takes Miwako under her wing for a time before Miwako eventually leaves Tokyo behind. ![]() 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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