SPEC: close-incarnation(2013)

the film which is loud and proud 

about not caring about logic....

what is this SPEC you speak of? because it is a SPEC you can really appreciate 

http://genkinahito.wordpress.com/2013/11/29/spec-close-crisscross-version-asa-hiru-ban-story-of-a-butcher-shop-japanese-film-trailers/
http://the-afterimage.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/keizoku-2-spec-close-kou-no-hen-movie.html
http://asianwiki.com/SPEC:_Close~Incarnation

before i comment on this film, i will point out firstly that i have not watch the previous film but despite this the film is self explanatory i would conclude and like a television show explains itself in great detail in the first few minutes. secondly the film with in the first 10 minutes i realised that it was making fun of itself in a blatantly obvious way and this is something a appreciated greatly. i will be watching the next movie with great anticipation, the characters overreacting and interaction with each other held no boundaries but why should it. the acting was raw, intense and experimental at times ( sometimes the jokes worked and at time they didn't but there was so much to take in that you didn't have chances to be disappointed). i review Erika Toda in the Liar Game where she seemed like a naive character but in Spec; Erika Toda is a completely different characters, she is more confident character who is ready for action.Chaiki Kuriyama did not have a big part in the movie but because it is continuous story i didn't think that this matter because the story was interesting if not beqarar at times.the over light-hearted narrative was engaging, with random moments like the grandmother with grenade which no one questions and why should they? Spec is a movie that i have wanted to watch for a while and it did not disappoint. it is unique to say the least and worth a watch.

Ultra Miracle Love Story (2009)

All this nonsense about cabbage's with brains

and people with no brains

I think that makes a whole lot of something?

http://asianwiki.com/Bare_Essence_of_Life

http://twitchfilm.com/2010/07/japan-cuts-2010-bare-essence-of-life-ultra-miracle-love-story-review.html

http://www.beyondhollywood.com/bare-essence-of-life-aka-ultra-miracle-love-story-2009-movie-review/

http://nishikataeiga.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/bare-essence-of-life-2009.html

http://www.japansociety.org/event_detail?eid=490bbe5d

ultar love story is a film i have been meaning to watch for a while and i really had to force myself to watch this film for many reasons. reason one is because even though it had my favorite actor in it, it felt like a child had written the script and my attention kept wondering off the screen toward other distraction. the film is not a love story and it makes you ask more question's about the characters then any other film; kenishi's character spends the whole film obsessing about about vegetables and acting so childish that he thinks it is a good idea to spray himself with pesticide.kumiko's charmer on the other hand was a straight laced characters, even though i have seen her in simulator roles, her character is usually bizarrely quirky in some way and she was a little to seriou in this role but saying that i think would be impossible to comment with a character like kenishi's who was constantly bouncing off the walls (that's not metaphorical in anyway shape or form). i am disappointed because of the shear fact that this film had two of my favorite actors are in the film but it was not how i envisioned it to be and there was not real acting chemistry between them. the film should be called either the "complex life of the cabbage patch kid" or "killer cabbage ate my brain" because those titles describe the film better i think.

Don't Laugh at Our Romance (2008)

Seriously don't laugh at my romance

Staring L from Death Note as Mirume

http://happyotter666.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/dont-laugh-at-my-romance-2007.html

http://asianwiki.com/Don't_Laugh_at_My_Romance

 

Not many people have reviewed this film but it was hard to find nevertheless and it is not the soppy romantic comedy film that i imagined it to be. Mirume is a student,we are introduced to Yuri his love interest right at the beginning of the film who is stranded and trying to hitch-hike bad home but stubble upon the van that Mirume is in. i presumed that this was the begging of their story, although Yuri don't have any recollection of meeting Mirume afterwards when they are both at school together and Mirume mention this to her. which begs the question how intoxicated was she and a normal occurrence to her. it is also clear that En-chan like Mirume, she is quite jealous when he ignores her and spends all his time with Yuri. The film is filled with long pauses, awkward silences at time when it isn't being playful between characters and is trying to reflect on the characters emotional states. Yuri is the cause and effect of all the other character story; she turns both Mirume and En-chan into depressing characters although the characters have different outcomes. Yuri is an older woman which you don't realise at first, as well as other details about her life that Mirume didn't realise and make his life far more complicated than it needs to be. the overall film has some really interesting concepts asks the viewer questions how love and life differ from Hollywood love stories but I think it could have been a shorter film. Even though the film had some amazing scenes with made to questions the characters mentality in a charmingly hilarious way, it still dragged at times and was being more film noire than it was being a comedy .which i was expecting to see a comedy. 

 

 

An Encyclopedia of Unconventional Women(2009)

http://asianwiki.com/An_Encyclopedia_of_Unconventional_Women

An Encyclopaedia of Unconventional Women is an interesting film which is were divided into six stories which all told different stories about unconventional women and had different directors for each tale. each story was set out like an experimental episode which had no relevance or similarity with each other. I did not like all of the stories, even the narratives of the stories I enjoyed where fouled but you have to appreciate that narratives are trying to make a comment of Japanese culture and are personal interpretations of women or what make a woman unusual to society. most of the narratives show women who rebel against other people, the First woman rebels against apart of her classroom and wants to be grown up even through she is clearly a child at heart. The second wants to fight for her right to have free food but then doesn't want the food in the end even though she wins ( I think this mean she want the freedom of chose); The third woman obsesses over if she wants to wear a bra, she changes herself to become more famine but still doesn't want to wear a bra after all because she doesn't feel comfortable; the four woman doesn't want to be a woman and prefers to be a man so she auditions in a play to be a man; The five woman wants to get away from her life, she goes to a hot spring where she acts like a child and play's tricks on other people; the sixth girl obsesses over what over people think about her so much that she transforms the way that she looks in one day and become a different person because of it. I like the last story the best because Riisa Naka's character Ryoko Nakatani spent the whole narrative worring about what over people would think about her that she didn't notice that she had changed or other people saw her differentially. The overall film had a possessive message about individuality.