I got an impression that this is a French film with Franco-Japanese characters speaking Japanese and behaving like French people, especially when K chases the garbage truck saying, “I’m garbage, throw me in, too.” Although the location is in Tokyo, I felt like I was seeing the streets of Paris. And the French father who boards the bus could be a Japanese living in Paris (reversed circumstances, similar situations). K and Hinano even sing in French and sound like they can be alumni of the French lycée in Tokyo. The blend of two cultures is an interesting one, allowing for an unusual context and cultural flavor to develop in this pleasant and thoughtful film. The question of morals it raises is interesting, too, as a starting point for a useful and potentially fruitful discussion for the formative years.