I am always skeptical about watching a Japanese drama.......They are capable of making a perfectly fine love story into a tragic ending one or not so great love story into somehow workable piece. So i read a lot of comments before staring this and 80% of the comments are positive.....so i gave it a go.......

Let's talk about the story first....... Was it unique , NO? Was it memorable, NO? Was it worth your time, Probably yes.....
This story spans from leads highschool till all way to their late 30s. They are each other's first love, how sweet it is......But here comes the 1st cliche , Amnesia ........Damn!!!! FL conveniently just forgets her years with the ML...lol.....Later she falls in love with some other guy and marries him and they have a son together...... But she gets divorce with him for some silly reason. In every household , every in laws looks down on the other...but to get divorce over that...hmmmm....i mean, FL didn't do anything when she found out her husband is cheating on her but decided to divorce him when her mother in law insulted her mom. Ok.....This mom of FL's, she single handedly destroyed her daughters life because she wanted her daughter to lead a life different from hers. FL's misery for 20 years was because of this mom's single decision of keeping the leads away from each other....I don't know why people forget that getting rich on our own is different than marrying into a rich household. Obviously the poor will be looked down upon.

Acting by the cast: ML's younger version is the only memorable character for me.....His acting was by far superior than all the senior actors combined. Rest all did a good job, i might forget about them in a day or 2.

Casting: Cast for the ML (Harumichi) , both the actors(young and the old) looked more or less similar but not the FL. Their faces are so different , i don't know who approved them to be cast as younger and older version of Yae. No doubt both are good looking but not similar looking at all.

Cons:
1) Many viewers have pointed out many discrepancy in timeliness but i didn't note down that in particular because there were many time jumps in just 5 mins of a scene. Something else stood out for me....The actor who has played Yae's ex-husband is the same guy. There is no young and old version for him. He dates the younger version of the FL but after marriage she has magically turned into the older version, lol.....

2) I still didn't understand the motive behind Harumichi looking for Yae after 20 years in tokyo. I mean, after he found her, he flirted with her, made her fall for him, kissed her and when she confessed her feelings he left her and went abroad...i mean, why? Didn't he love her so he looked for her , so he broke up with his gf then why did he reject her ??? This is beyond me.....

3) Yae's memories came back just by listening to one song. I mean, she was just one song away from her lost memories. lol....

I feel life is short and the leads just spent 23 years in pushing and pulling. Last 3 years is totally on the ML, god knows why he rejected her....Writers attempt in showing the play of fate was little irritating. Thank god, this was just 9 episode series......

Will I watch this again, No....Will i recommend this to other, maybe....