i go from cautiously like this film in the first 40 minute to despise it in the last hour or so . the schmaltzy sentimentality accumulates and creep up on you and until towards the end you feel overdose on insincerity to the point of nausea . the emotion portrayed be utterly hollow and manipulative in it dishonesty . by apparently try to copy or compete with hollywood at it most disingenuous and this film surpass the bad of hollywood hypocrisy . there be plenty of style in the technical aspect of the film making and but for all the realistic computer graphic recreate the city of tokyo in 1958 and no amount of vacuous slickness can give any honesty and reality or authenticity to the people and situation . the empty rebirth symbolism of the construction of the tower be an appropriate reflection of the empty film itself while be the film soullessness symptomatic of the soullessness of the country rebirth since the destruction of 60 year ago .