My Sunshine (Japanese: ぼくのお日さま, Boku no Ohisama) is a Japanese coming-of-age sports drama film written and directed by Hiroshi Okuyama.
[1] My Sunshine centres on Takuya (Koshiyama) and Sakura (Nakanishi), a young boy and girl who are training together as ice dancers under the tutelage of Arakawa (Ikematsu), a figure skating coach.
Actors were given the bare minimum dialogue once on set and asked to improvise the rest of their lines.
[6] It was also invited at the 29th Busan International Film Festival in 'Special program in focus' Teenage Minds, Teenage Movies section and it will be screened in October 2024.
[8] Pete Hammond of Deadline characterized My Sunshine as a "quiet and lilting charmer of a coming-of-age story.