My Rainy Days -- Film Review

TOKYO -- Yuri Kanchiku's directorial debut "My Rainy Days" dallies with social phenomena highly publicized in Japan: the Lolita complex and teenage prostitution. Yet it is neither controversial nor serious. With a cast that belongs on the cat walk rather than ordinary life and every frame exquisitely designed to look like a fashion magazine advertorial, the film -- about a romance between a wayward high school girl and a bookish college professor -- is as sweet and sparkling as a Bellini cocktail, and just as light and frivolous.