I can´t say that Koji got unchallenging roles, when most of his roles are!
First Japanese films have to get better again and far away from the overrated trash of a Sono Shio and Takashi Miike. There are few too, but still more interesting roles on TV right now. Even Watanabe Ken prefers JDrama over JMovies. :/
Sorry, it took a while until I had the time to read this thoroughly. It already looked interesting from the headline and so I wanted to have the chance to really enjoy this translation. And yes, it IS highly interesting - and like Tilmon said, the director spoke our hearts. This is highly welcome praise for Koji-chan and I hope many other producers and directors have read it
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You´re welcome! Thank you, I´m glad you enjoyed it~ ^_^o
I sadly have to say that 'Eternal Zero' counts to the worst recent Japanese movies I have seen. From the special effects over the mediocre acting to the blind propaganda. I can see how, on the surface, it looks like a nice story about the late grandfather who´s comrades remember him during their time at war together. But this movie was neither convincing for me during the supposed-to-be dog fights, in which you mostly see nothing more than the cockpit, some pixeled aircrafts and on top of everything the most respectless Pearl Harbor attack in movie history, nor was the story that profound or the actors compelling to me - I found the whole movie simply boring with an uncritical approached ideology.
I don´t know, but since 'Eternal Zero' is everything but an anti-war movie, it doesn´t seems like a movie Koji as pacificist would take part in.
I´m really surprised about your look on „Eternal zero“. First of all I really can´t see this as propaganda for war - unlike some previous Japanese movie I saw. To me it clearly showed the stupidity, senselessness and horror of war. How it destroyed ambitious people. And for a Japanese view found it very critical - it clearly showed how useless young Japanese men were used as fuel - without sense. Clearly bashing the Kamikaze-stragtegy. And it even ended with Miura as young man taking in what it really meant to live in a peaceful era and being thankful for it. The CGI was also surprinsingly good for Japanese standards, especially the carrier-scenes. The only CGI that did not convince me, was the Pearl harbor-section. And I really like most of the acting. I still wonder how you could have experienced this so differently…
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Years ago, I read the following conversation on 2ch:
Person 1: "Why isn´t he even more popular, he is really great."
Person 2: "Because his acting doesn´t appears to be acting, it´s too real."
WTH! *sighs*
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It's been nice seeing him get more challenging roles on stage and TV. I hope it will soon carry over into movies.
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First Japanese films have to get better again and far away from the overrated trash of a Sono Shio and Takashi Miike. There are few too, but still more interesting roles on TV right now. Even Watanabe Ken prefers JDrama over JMovies. :/
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I sadly have to say that 'Eternal Zero' counts to the worst recent Japanese movies I have seen. From the special effects over the mediocre acting to the blind propaganda. I can see how, on the surface, it looks like a nice story about the late grandfather who´s comrades remember him during their time at war together. But this movie was neither convincing for me during the supposed-to-be dog fights, in which you mostly see nothing more than the cockpit, some pixeled aircrafts and on top of everything the most respectless Pearl Harbor attack in movie history, nor was the story that profound or the actors compelling to me - I found the whole movie simply boring with an uncritical approached ideology.
I don´t know, but since 'Eternal Zero' is everything but an anti-war movie, it doesn´t seems like a movie Koji as pacificist would take part in.
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The CGI was also surprinsingly good for Japanese standards, especially the carrier-scenes. The only CGI that did not convince me, was the Pearl harbor-section. And I really like most of the acting. I still wonder how you could have experienced this so differently…
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