firefly dream be a movie about the friendship between a young teenage girl and an old lady who she visit in her summer holiday . naomi be a spoiled brat and send by her father to the countryside and after her mother run away . there she work at the restaurant of her aunt and uncle . close life also mrs koide with whom she use to play when she be a kid . from there the story unfolds . i have to praise almost all aspect of the movie . the plot be well think and all character be believable and very interesting even the one who just appear in a few scene . the photography be marvellous and the landscape be breathtaking and round up the plot very nicely . the aesthetic be very different from recent japanese movie i saw ( e. g. from kitano ) . it be violent free and it be set mainly in a rural area . maybe this be so because the director be english and choose a different approach for portray japanese life and but this be just a speculation . the acting be great and for me this be the first time i think i learn something about normal japanese everyday life through a movie . surely the development of naomi and how she grow up and indeed have to grow up through friendship and also sorrow and be the drive force of the movie . the movie have a slow pace and so if you be an action movie fan and do not go . everybody else represent you will not regret it .