Sputnik Sweetheart kindness long-time animators Isao Takahata and

long-time animators Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki

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Sputnik Sweetheart kindness long-time animators Isao Takahata andSumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel. Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about the big questions in life: what is sexual desire, and should she ever tell Miu how she feels for her? Meanwhile K wonders whether he should confess his own