hisasiburi ni tomodati to attara, sannenburi ni issyo ni eigakan he ikou to iwareta.

久しぶりに means after a long time or for the first time in a long time.

In this sentence, it modifies 会った and means that the speaker met the friend again after not seeing them for quite a while.

• 久しぶり = a long time / long time no see
• に makes it work adverbially, so it can modify a verb

So:

• 久しぶりに会う = to meet after a long time

Also, 久しぶり can be used by itself as a greeting, like Long time no see.

They are similar in structure, but different in specificity.

• 久しぶりに = after a long time (vague)
• 三年ぶりに = for the first time in three years (specific)

So this sentence uses two different time-gap expressions:

• 久しぶりに友達と会ったら = when I met my friend after a long time
• 三年ぶりに一緒に映画館へ行こう = let’s go to the movie theater together for the first time in three years

The two expressions are not redundant, because they refer to different actions.

The pattern Xぶりに means for the first time in X or after an interval of X.

Examples:

• 三年ぶりに会う = meet for the first time in three years
• 一週間ぶりに休んだ = had a day off for the first time in a week
• 十年ぶりに日本へ行った = went to Japan for the first time in ten years

So 三年ぶりに tells you how long it has been since that action last happened.

会ったら is 会う in the たら form.

Here it means when I met or when I had met.

In Japanese, たら can mean:

• if
• when
• once

In past narrative sentences like this one, it often means when:

• 友達と会ったら、… = When I met my friend, ...

This pattern often introduces what happened next, especially something discovered, said, or done after that event.

In 友達と会う, the particle と marks the person you meet.

So:

• 友達と会う = meet a friend / meet with a friend

This is the normal pattern with 会う when talking about meeting a person.

Be careful not to confuse this と with the other と later in the sentence:

• 友達と = with a friend
• 行こうと = let’s go, quoted

They are different uses of the same particle.

行こう is the volitional form of 行く.

The volitional form often means:

• let’s go
• shall we go
• I’ll go (depending on context)

Here, because it is something the friend said, it means an invitation or suggestion:

• 一緒に映画館へ行こう = Let’s go to the movie theater together

So 行こう is not plain future tense. It expresses will, suggestion, or invitation.

This と is the quotative particle. It marks the content of what was said.

So:

• 行こうと言われた = was told let’s go / was told we should go

Structure:

• [quoted content] + と + 言う

Examples:

• 来ると言った = said I’ll come
• 大丈夫だと言った = said it’s okay
• 行こうと言われた = was told let’s go

So this と has nothing to do with with. It introduces the words or idea being said.

言われた is the passive form of 言う.

Literally, it means was said to. In natural English, that often becomes:

• I was told ...
• my friend said to me ...
• my friend suggested ...

This form puts the focus on the speaker as the person receiving the words, rather than on the friend as the one speaking.

Compare:

• 友達が行こうと言った = My friend said, let’s go
• 行こうと言われた = I was told, let’s go / My friend suggested to me, let’s go

In this sentence, the passive makes the event sound like something that happened to the speaker.

Not necessarily.

Although 言われた can sometimes sound like was told in a strong way, here the quoted content is 行こう—a suggestion or invitation, not a command.

So the nuance is more like:

• my friend suggested that we go
• my friend invited me to go
• my friend said, let’s go

If it were a true order, the quoted form would usually sound more commanding.

一緒に means together.

So:

• 一緒に映画館へ行こう = let’s go to the movie theater together

Because 行こう already implies let’s, the idea of doing something together is partly built in, but 一緒に makes it more explicit and natural.

It emphasizes that the speaker and the friend would go as a pair.

Yes, に would also be correct.

With verbs of movement like 行く, both に and へ can mark destination:

• 映画館へ行く
• 映画館に行く

The difference is small:

• へ emphasizes direction slightly
• に emphasizes destination/location slightly

In everyday Japanese, both are common and natural here.

Japanese often leaves the subject unstated, so you infer it from context.

The most natural reading is:

• I met a friend after a long time
• then the friend said to me, let’s go to the movie theater together for the first time in three years

So the hidden subject of 会ったら is probably I, and the hidden speaker behind 言われた is probably my friend.

This is very normal in Japanese. Subjects and pronouns are often omitted when they are clear from context.

By itself, 友達 can mean either a friend or friends, depending on context. Japanese nouns usually do not show singular/plural the way English does.

In this sentence, most people would probably understand it as a friend, because:

• 友達と会った naturally suggests meeting one friend
• 行こうと言われた also sounds like one person said it

But grammatically, the word itself does not force singular.

Not exactly.

The sentence separates two ideas:

• 久しぶりに友達と会った = they met after a long time
• 三年ぶりに一緒に映画館へ行こうと言われた = the friend suggested going to the movie theater together for the first time in three years

So three years most naturally refers to going to the movie theater together, not necessarily to meeting each other.

If the sentence wanted to say I met my friend for the first time in three years, it would more directly say something like:

• 三年ぶりに友達と会った

So the exact placement of 三年ぶりに matters.