Recommeded Movie from me
I Have to Buy New Shoes
Starring: Miho Nakayama, Osamu Mukai, Mirei Kiritani, Go Ayano, Amanda Plummer
Director: Eriko Kitagawa
Category: I (Japanese, French and English)
Plot :
Please, I beg you, don't let the title, which makes it sound like some brain-dead chick flick, put you off. It absolutely makes sense in the context of the film, but it unfortunately lends a false first impression. This is anything but brainless: it is a funny, poignant, bittersweet movie with wonderful performances that sweeps you up in its embrace and never lets go, right through to its melancholy yet hopeful conclusion.
I Have to Buy New Shoes begins with a series of black and white photographs showing some of the local color and iconic landmarks of its Paris setting. These are presumably photographs taken by Yagami Sen (Mukai Osamu), a commercial photographer who has been dragged to Paris by his insistent sister Suzume (Kiritani Mirei), for a purpose that she doesn't reveal to her brother. It seems that they are about to have a fun time seeing the sights when Suzume does something inexplicable: with the pretense of taking some photos near the Seine, she suddenly takes off in their cab, ditching Sen by the side of the road, greatly confusing and angering him.
As Sen angrily paces around, his luggage and other belongings strewn on the ground around him, suddenly comes the obligatory romantic comedy meet-cute scene. A woman rushing past on her way to an appointment slips on Sen's passport, breaking the heel of her shoe. This woman is Teshigawara Aoi (Nakayama Miho), a Japanese expat who edits a free local Japanese newspaper. The two strike up an instant rapport, and after Aoi advises that Sen go to the embassy for a replacement passport, and Sen uses Krazy Glue to repair Aoi's shoe, they part company.
Aoi and Sen soon reconnect when Sen asks her to help him find the hotel where he and Suzume are staying; Suzume took the note that had the name of the hotel on it when she left him. Aoi uses her newspaper contacts to do some sleuthing, and figures out the name of the hotel. Then comes a beautifully constructed sequence: Aoi guides Sen to the hotel by mobile phone, and as they converse with each other and she steers him through iconic Paris landmarks - the Champs-Élysées, the Eiffel Tower, the Notre-Dame Cathedral - it becomes very clear that something very special is developing between the two of them. The sequence is capped off by a wonderful visual surprise, one that marks the real start of their brief three-day romance - Sen is due to return to Tokyo then.
Meanwhile, Suzume pays a surprise visit to her boyfriend Kango (Ayano Go), which is the real reason for her visit to Paris. Kango left Japan six months earlier to pursue his dream of being a working artist in Paris. Suzume spends her time trying to reconnect with Kango, looking for him to be as committed to her as he is to his art. The action shuttles back and forth between the romances both siblings are involved in, although much stronger emphasis is placed on Aoi and Sen's story.
by: twitchfilm
You can download it here :
I Have To Buy New Shoes
Starring: Miho Nakayama, Osamu Mukai, Mirei Kiritani, Go Ayano, Amanda Plummer
Director: Eriko Kitagawa
Category: I (Japanese, French and English)
Plot :
Please, I beg you, don't let the title, which makes it sound like some brain-dead chick flick, put you off. It absolutely makes sense in the context of the film, but it unfortunately lends a false first impression. This is anything but brainless: it is a funny, poignant, bittersweet movie with wonderful performances that sweeps you up in its embrace and never lets go, right through to its melancholy yet hopeful conclusion.
I Have to Buy New Shoes begins with a series of black and white photographs showing some of the local color and iconic landmarks of its Paris setting. These are presumably photographs taken by Yagami Sen (Mukai Osamu), a commercial photographer who has been dragged to Paris by his insistent sister Suzume (Kiritani Mirei), for a purpose that she doesn't reveal to her brother. It seems that they are about to have a fun time seeing the sights when Suzume does something inexplicable: with the pretense of taking some photos near the Seine, she suddenly takes off in their cab, ditching Sen by the side of the road, greatly confusing and angering him.
As Sen angrily paces around, his luggage and other belongings strewn on the ground around him, suddenly comes the obligatory romantic comedy meet-cute scene. A woman rushing past on her way to an appointment slips on Sen's passport, breaking the heel of her shoe. This woman is Teshigawara Aoi (Nakayama Miho), a Japanese expat who edits a free local Japanese newspaper. The two strike up an instant rapport, and after Aoi advises that Sen go to the embassy for a replacement passport, and Sen uses Krazy Glue to repair Aoi's shoe, they part company.
Aoi and Sen soon reconnect when Sen asks her to help him find the hotel where he and Suzume are staying; Suzume took the note that had the name of the hotel on it when she left him. Aoi uses her newspaper contacts to do some sleuthing, and figures out the name of the hotel. Then comes a beautifully constructed sequence: Aoi guides Sen to the hotel by mobile phone, and as they converse with each other and she steers him through iconic Paris landmarks - the Champs-Élysées, the Eiffel Tower, the Notre-Dame Cathedral - it becomes very clear that something very special is developing between the two of them. The sequence is capped off by a wonderful visual surprise, one that marks the real start of their brief three-day romance - Sen is due to return to Tokyo then.
Meanwhile, Suzume pays a surprise visit to her boyfriend Kango (Ayano Go), which is the real reason for her visit to Paris. Kango left Japan six months earlier to pursue his dream of being a working artist in Paris. Suzume spends her time trying to reconnect with Kango, looking for him to be as committed to her as he is to his art. The action shuttles back and forth between the romances both siblings are involved in, although much stronger emphasis is placed on Aoi and Sen's story.
by: twitchfilm
You can download it here :
I Have To Buy New Shoes