Your Favorite Scene

Very hard to single out one. Every scene with Mr. Ota is beautiful and unforgettable. Every scene with Yang-Yang is wonderful, particularly when he asks his father about why we can't see what others see. The whole last half hour or so of the picture has a subtly devastating kind of momentum and quiet poignancy to it that supercharges the whole film. The whole pre-credits sequence at the wedding is terrific, flawlessly composed.

But, if I had to pick one: the dream sequence (or is it?) near the end where Ting-Ting finally lays bare her feelings, all her guilt and worries, to her grandma, who is now miraculously conscious and dressed in beautiful blue, just silently sitting there comforting her granddaughter. (Notice how we never hear the grandmother speak a word, here or in the rest of the film). "Why is the world so different from what we thought it was?" This scene makes me bawl like a baby every time, just something about it is so deeply, incredibly moving in a very natural and not at all overly sentimental way as some have asserted.

The first meeting between Ota and NJ. The entire sequence from the dinner scene all the way to Ota playing moonlight sonata on the piano.