How to evaluate the movie Goodbye Nara?

With the soothing and fresh rhythm of the road film, the film combines the friendly and beautiful customs of Nara with the story of finding relatives, creating a kind of folk love. In the film, both Wu Yanshu's mother who adopted orphans after the war and Yingze's children who stayed in China suffered the impact and pain brought by the war. However, all the hardships are briefly mentioned in the film. Including pictures and music, all messages are bright and warm [2]. (Summary of papers)

Looking at Nara once again focuses on a specific minority-Japanese orphans in World War II. In the end, director Pengfei showed a story that a marginal person may have gone to bitterness and hatred in a light and even relaxed way. With the support of a strong behind-the-scenes lineup, Pengfei continued to maintain the high degree of completion of the film and better highlighted his personal style. Cai Mingliang's iconic fixed shot still exists, but obviously when the director wants to pursue some more emotional expressions, he will deliberately break this continuous fixed shot and try to use some moving shots that follow the characters as much as possible to highlight their emotions. On the whole, except for two scenes with obvious emotional incitement, the whole movie is still very restrained. The director obviously doesn't want to make any value judgments [13]. (Interface News Review)

In the lens of director Pengfei, the war orphans are sad but not sensational, and the sadness of finding relatives is restrained. When dealing with cultural differences and language barriers, add some appropriate sense of humor to lead the audience to gently approach the real life of war orphans [22]. (Qilu Evening News Review)

The opening animation not only sets the tone for the relatively brisk atmosphere of the whole film, but also echoes the ending in some ways. The whole film relies on transnational communication to make jokes, although not so advanced, but it is very suitable for the scene, and scattered distribution, from time to time to enhance the mood of the audience. These sketches are well balanced in scale and will not impact the historical issues of the whole film.