I have had this 2020 Yoshitaka Yuriko movie in my hdd for a very long time. She plays Akari, a blind woman who likes to watch this dorama with an old man working working at a car park because he could describe to her what was happening in the dorama.
As luck would have it, the old man runs away from his stable and easy job and ex kickboxer Antonio steps into the job and becomes friends with Akari. The beginning of Your Eyes Tell is the must cliche and derivative romantic melodrama I have ever seen.
The chemistry and dialogue is meh. The heroine works in a call centre and can afford a very spacious apartment. The movie woke me up in the middle when we learn more about Antonio's past. I thought ok, this movie is about making up for one's past.
The fighting was so so because the target audience is not men. Then the movie really goes into super melodrama mode so that it can create melodramatic scenes and point to the audience and say, "look how sad this scene is!" I wondered if it was a remake of a HK movie but it turned out to be a Korean movie remake.
I managed to finish it for Yoshitaka Yuriko. She is very good but for me Your Eyes Tell feels so manufactured to get female viewers to cry and there is no magic in the dialogue. If you want a really good romantic melodrama, watch Tenshi no Koi. If you want a good blind girl movie, watch Blind Witness. Meh from me unless you are a fan of Korean melodrama.
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