Film Review: You’ll Want To Relive ‘The Night is Short, Walk on Girl’ Again And Again

A Night You’ll Want to Relive Again And Again! I just moved and the ride to and fro from my apartment to the closest movie theater is roughly fifteen minutes or so. My ride home was apparently just the right length to convince my Lyft driver to go buy a ticket to see The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl after he saw how animated I was reliving the experience of watching the film. To say I loved this film is a severe understatement.   I love this film, and I count it as a superb send off as summer is ending and all the night time adventures that happened this season that are coming to a bright and beautiful end.

I originally saw a snippet of The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl a month ago after watching Fireworks, also distributed through Gkids and Fathom Events. While I considered that film to be the beginning of summer for me, this one is the film to be apart of that bitter sweet end of summer. The snippet I watched last month with my fellow movie goers that stuck around after the credits had peals of laughter coming from our theater and people walking past asking what we had just watched. If it was a sign on what to expect, then it was accurate. The shortest synopsis I could offer could be: one epic night in Kyoto. A longer one could be: when a group of young adults go and paint the town red, everyone gets involved! Perhaps the longer and more definitive synopsis could be: a night this city won’t soon forget with an adventure that has confessions of love, drinking contests,…