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If Chihayafuru was a meal, it'd be unsalted rice with extra ego.
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2011 · Animation / Drama
Chihayafuru
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Masterfully crafted. Un-roastable.
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An absolute cinematic disaster.
Chihaya Ayase has spent most of her life supporting her sister’s model career. When she meets a boy named Arata Wataya, he thinks Chihaya has potential to become a great karuta player. As Chihaya dreams of becoming Japan's best karuta player, she is soon separated from her karuta playing friends. Now in high school, Chihaya still plays karuta in the hope that she will one day meet her friends again.
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RELEASE DATE
2011
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GENRE
Animation / Drama
PLOT SUMMARY
Chihaya Ayase has spent most of her life supporting her sister’s model career. When she meets a boy named Arata Wataya, he thinks Chihaya has potential to become a great karuta player. As Chihaya dreams of becoming Japan's best karuta player, she is soon separated from her karuta playing friends. Now in high school, Chihaya still plays karuta in the hope that she will one day meet her friends again.
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@ROW_F_REGRET2026-01-01 23:00 UTC
Chihayafuru has the emotional range of a fridge magnet.
@ENDING_LEAKS2025-12-31 19:00 UTC
Two solid hours of characters staring intensely out of rain-slicked windows. Brilliant work, Chihayafuru.
@SCREEN_SHADE2026-01-15 00:00 UTC
Chihayafuru confuses "subtle" with "the cast forgot to act".
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r/criticalkino · u/ExpositionDump🔥 4.1k points
[Serious Discussion] Is anyone else completely checked out by the pacing in Chihayafuru?
Rewatched Chihayafuru last night and noticed even more plot holes than the first time. The motivations don't track at all once you stop and think about act two.
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r/TrueFilm · u/CinephileCynic🔥 3.7k points
Unpopular opinion: Chihayafuru is the most overrated film of the decade
Everyone praising the Chihayafuru performances must have watched a different cut. The lead is sleepwalking through this and the supporting cast can't save it.
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r/boxoffice · u/FrameByFrameFred🔥 3.5k points
The cinematography in Chihayafuru is doing all the heavy lifting and it shows
Look, I wanted to love Chihayafuru. The trailer had me hyped. But sitting through the second hour felt like a homework assignment. The dialogue is exposition stacked on exposition and the score keeps telling me how to feel.
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r/boxoffice · u/PopcornPhilosopher🔥 3.4k points
Hot Take: Chihayafuru's third act ruined what could have been a masterpiece
Director clearly thought Chihayafuru was deeper than it is. There's a difference between ambiguous and unfinished, and this leans hard into the second.
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