Add to watchlist this japanese film is a thriller about five strange stories with seemingly no connection. Its a movie that is completely fun to watch, even if you dislike foreign films. Simply put, this film is a schizophrenic experience. Firsttime feature director gen sekiguchi actually was japans leading and awardwinning director of commercials, and he brings a stunning visual style to the film the production design makes. Survive style 5 the 2004 movie, trailers, videos and more at yidio. However, in view of the whole range of current japanesechinesetiawanese film output, anyone giving this a ten star rating should get out more. They eventually become intertwined making the outcome irrational. I had absolutely no information about the film aside from the store owners vague recommendation. At times, the movie feels like monty python with a hint of fight club and national lampoons vacation series.
Director gen sekiguchi and screenwriter taku tada, phenomenally successful award winners in japans advertising industry, make their featurefilm debut with. It was a regionfree japanese dvd, with very little english on the packaging. Magnolia shouldnt even be mentioned in the same sentence with it. To that point, its hard to say what gen sekiguchis original intent was for the production, but he certainly fashioned a memorable and incredibly. I was almost unable to contain my excitement at the moment. A man continually trying and failing to get his wife to stay dead. Directed by gen sekiguchi writing credits taku tada produced by hiroyuki taniguchi, ryoichi fukuyama music by james shimoji cinematography by makoto shiguma film editing by gen sekiguchi, taku tada. Ishigaki tadanobu asano yoko, commercial planner kyoko koizumi tiger aoyama, hypnotist hiroshi abe.
The movie is very fast paced, jumping around from each of the five main characters, with each character having their own unique story. The ubiquitous tadanobu asano introduces the film, playing a man who has apparently just murdered his lovely wife reika. Its one of the strangest films ive seen but the ensemble. If you take steps to murder your wife, youd better make sure shes really dead, because if she isnt. For a normal film, this would be more than enough, but in his overpopulated world, sekiguchi still found space for a professional murderer and three thieves. This story takes little of the film s length and it is also the most disconnected one, but adds a funky sexuality note. Sonny chiba has a cameo as the henpecked president of a drug company. To say that the picture is unlike anything one has ever seen before also couldnt be closer to the truth. But even then there is always something that catches the eye. All diese geschichten sind witzig, verruckt oder seltsam. It stars tadanobu asano, kyoko koizumi, reika hashimoto, jai west, sonny chiba and vinnie jones. Sekiguchi exudes a rare sense of confidence for a firsttime director, and i can imagine that. Anderson with the strange turned up a notch, director sekiguchi and writer tada spend a half hour introducing five sets of characters before bumping their stories against each other in ways that may not always be unpredictable, but.
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