‘18×2 Beyond Youthful Days’: Formulaic tearjerker hits the road for true love
Medical melodramas generally either give you the diagnosis, fatal or otherwise, up front or save it for later in the story. In the former category is Michihito Fujii’s 2020 drama, “The Last Ten Years,” which signals the young protagonist’s fate — she only has a decade left to live — right in the title. In the latter is the director’s new tearjerker, “18×2 Beyond Youthful Days.”