Review of My Rainy Days / 天使の恋, directed by Yuri Kanchiku

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There was a period throughout 2025 where I was left unemployed, and I was so incredibly grateful to be in the financial situation where if I wanted to take a break and step away from the grind, I could. I didn’t intend for it to be as long as it was, as I was applying to over 300 jobs and couldn’t find a position. Not a great time to job hunt during one of one of the worst job markets in decades.

I am happy to report I did find a job, but when I was unemployed I was watching a lot of movies and reading books in order to fill the time when I wasn’t spending it stalking LinkedIn and Indeed. It took 300 job applications, but I did find a gig fifteen minutes down from where I live, so I’m happy with my commute and the gig I did end up finding.

But before then, I was writing a lot of blog posts about the movies and shows I was watching, and this post is from one of them. I saw a clip of My Rainy Days on Instagram, thought the cinematography looked great, and decided I was going to watch it wherever I could find it.

Lo and behold I had access to it for free via my Viki Premium account, so I was more than happy to sit down and watch it over the course of three nights. I wish I could’ve watched this all the way through, but a New York City trip was cutting into my screen time. I was spending more time int he real world, which is always great too.

Let’s get into the review! I don’t want to ramble too much, as I know these can get quite long.

A high school student falls for a college professor almost twice her age, leading to some heartbreak.

Our main character, who we meet first, is Rio Ozawa. She’s seventeen at the start of the series, and she’s quite the looker. Everyone around her is gravitated to her appearance, which leads to some sticky situations involving older men and boys her age, especially considering the lack of boundaries some people have.

We learn throughout the movie is that Rio has quite the traumatic past and turbulent childhood, which is why she also puts herself in situations she shouldn’t really be in. None of us are really great people sometimes in high school, or who we want to be, and we can describe her as that. She often uses her friends for her own needs, which isn’t great to see on the camera.

Something else she does, which feeds into the male attention, is that she basically is a sugar baby and gets involved with extortion. Things change for her though when one day her photographs are placed under a different Ozawa, who turns out to be a professor: Kouki Ozawa.

Even though he is 35, she falls in love with him quickly, even though she never has felt anything like this in her life. Suddenly she no longer wants to live the life she’s been creating for herself, and even though she was very adult like before this, she starts acting her age with her new crush on him. He resists her attempts to ask him out, even when she follows him around like a little puppy with tears in its eyes.

He does have an interest in him, but he has principles he doesn’t betray at first. Rio then decides she’s going to change everything about her situation to appeal to him, but then he randomly vanishes without a word.

This upsets Rio, who was so dead set on dating him, but she has her friends and one of his relatives to figure out where he is. He’s teaching at a different school now, and it’s there that Rio discovers he actually has brain cancer. He’s dying right before his eyes, and he doesn’t want to get her hopes up.

It’s Rio who convinces him to get a surgery. He finally agrees and lives through the operation, but it’s not entirely clear if he remembers her. One of the major side effects was that he might lose his memory, but the film ends on a positive note with them together.

Overall Thoughts

This reminds me of how I was watching My Oxford Year the other day and how in that review, I was heavily critiquing the film for its storyline of a professor dating a student. This movie evades that problem, but it opens a new can of worms with Rio being underage. That’s not okay, and it feels like a movie from the late 2000s because of this plot line.

In 2025 I don’t think I can suggest these kinds of stories. I didn’t feel like Rio was being groomed at all, as the male lead wasn’t actively trying to date her at first and even resists her initial attempts to get closer to him. However, even with justifying it in some ways with her more “mature” attitude, it just didn’t work.

There are some great blocking and cinematography moments here and there though. I just can’t suggest this movie going forward though because it feels like a betrayal of my own ethics. I said the same about My Oxford Year, as the power dynamic was too great with that relationship.

Go watch it if you want, but I can’t put my stamp of approval on this one.

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