Sweet Rain, it is a novel written by a Japanese writer, Kotaro Isaka. Kotaro Isaka is a young star of recent Japanese writers, who is knowledgeable in many aspects, such as science, art, history and music. In his novels, readers can usually see his sharp and impressive perception on human beings. The amazing characters and original plots created in his novel are his feature. Plots may be a consecutive arson events happens in a city which always accompanied with mysterious words daubed on the wall, or a story between three professional killers. The characters can be a scarecrow who has the ability to talk, or a god of death, such as Chiba in Sweet Rain.
People's image of god of death is like a skeleton in black cape with a big scaring sickle. But this image doesn't fit to Chiba. In Sweet Rain, god of death is a jod, they work under an organization. When they get the message sent by the department of imformation, it is time for them to work. The content of work is to observe an assigned human for seven days, on the eighth day the god of death will decide whether his target shall die or not. In order to make the observation work easier to do, the department of imformation will tell the god of death how their outlooking is like this time. It is helpful when they need to approach their targets.
Chiba is one of the god of death, the one among them who is enthusiastic at music. He considers music as the greatest invention of human. The love of music makes him different from his colleague. However, there is a special thing always comes with him. That is, he has never seen a sunny day. When he is on his work, it is always raining. As a god of death who has a totally different thinking logic than human, he doesn't care much about that.
In the novel, there are seven people in his investigation. (In the movie which adapts from the novel, he meets three people). We see the variety of human lives. Every person has their own life story and living philosophy. Through the eyes of Chiba, whose thought will not be affected by emotion, we can observe humanity transparently.
Since I am only a 19 year old student, I don't think I have the qualification to talk about the true meaning of human life. But I did get some thoughts after watching this movie and then reading the novel last year, that was -no matter what difficulty you encounter in your life, face it! Every person's life story is fascinating. If you don't keep going, you will never know which way your own story will go to and how will it develope. In the end, Chiba sees a beautiful sunny day scene beside the sea. It seems saying to us: after sweet rain, there is sunny day!
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From your description, "Sweet Rain" seems to be an very interesting novel because we as readers, examine people's live objectively through the eye of Chiba (the third person's perspective), and that, to some extend, reminds ourselves that we should sometimes look at our own life honestly, and try to make the rest of if more meaningful.
My cousin used to recommend me this movie. However I didn't watch it. After reading your description, I develop an interest in this movie and novel. The image of gods of death is interesting.
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