"Performing..." is also a funny, melancholic and classic Japanese love story. Classic because within the traditional Japanese relationship, a man and woman only realize the depth of their love for each other in the face of death, not in the life that they had shared together. Consider that a Japanese man often proposes by saying "let's get buried in the same grave," and a woman divorces him by saying "no way am I going in the same grave as you and your parents."

Japan Subculture Research Center