My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday

My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday (2016) is a Japanese romantic drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Takahiro Miki with Sō Fukushi and Nana Komatsu. Art student Takatoshi spots Emi on a Kyoto commuter train and works up the nerve to speak to her. She seems just as drawn to him. They start dating, and for a few weeks it looks like a straightforward love story.

Then Emi tells him the truth. Her time runs in reverse: every day she moves toward him is a day she is moving away. When he is falling in love for the first time, she is already counting down to goodbye. The film is adapted from the novel by Ken'ichirō Hasegawa and builds its emotion not through plot surprises but through small, precise moments — a shared meal, a photograph, a first kiss — each one meaning something different depending on whose direction you're traveling.

The ending earns what it asks of the audience. Stream My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday (2016) online on iFILM.