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Another Japanese movie post~
I Give My First Love to You: Unintentionally SO WEIRD. It's like it tried to set up a paint-by-numbers love story where one of them turns out to have a fatal disease ohnoes (not a spoiler, that's the premise) but wasn't sure how to go about it so kept tossing in really weird shit. My favourite character got HIT BY A TRUCK! And the ending was probably supposed to be sad but sweet, but I just found it creepy. Finding out it's based on a manga by the same woman who wrote Boku wa Imouto ni Koi wo Suru actually made a lot of sense. Aoki Kotomi, you are SO WEIRD.
The Shounen Merikensack: Solanin gave me a craving for more Miyazaki Aoi, so I went for something directed by Kudo Kankuro. HOLY CRAP, SO FUNNY. Sometimes I can forget how awesome Kudo's stuff is. The best part is easily when Telya was walking around narrating his actions. "Turn left, walking, I stop to pick up some trash - but then maybe I don't." And Sato Yuki playing the punked out guitarist in the 80s is only slightly less hilarious than him playing that character's illegitimate son.
Oh KaGAAAAmi, that is so not cute.
Hebi ni Piasu: When a movie I didn't pay to see makes me feel like I want my money back, we have a freaking problem. To be fair, I haven't read the book but I'm sure it's a good adaption. It's just that I hated the plot and characters - and the one character I did like got raped and murdered! I have a really bad track record with that kind of thing. =/ It is weird how in the last week and a half I've watched three movies Kora Kengo was in, and the one where he has a billion piercings, a mohawk, and a split tongue is the one where he's completely adorable.
SO DAMN CUTE~ (Even if was a total assface in Bandage.)
Oppai Volleyball: Strangely heartwarming for a movie entirely about horny middleschool volleyball players and Ayase Haruka's boobs. This movie is so funny, omg I don't even. There's just something awesome about a group of twiggy middleschool boys running in their gym outfits while chanting "OPPAI! OPPAI!"
Seriously. What more can I say.
Aoi Tori: I was expecting it to be kind of an overwrought tearjerker, but I was really surprised. This movie is actually really, really good! I mean, it is a bit sad, but it deals with everything in a kind of simple way (even the cinematography seems really simple - clean and uncluttered, really nice) that it ended up being really powerful and touching without trying too hard. And I don't know who gave the better performance, Abe Hiroshi or Hongo Kanata, but they were both totally awesome. And because I can't talk about him without getting a little creepy, I'll just say that Hongo Kanata is utterly gorgeous when he cries.
I Give My First Love to You: Unintentionally SO WEIRD. It's like it tried to set up a paint-by-numbers love story where one of them turns out to have a fatal disease ohnoes (not a spoiler, that's the premise) but wasn't sure how to go about it so kept tossing in really weird shit. My favourite character got HIT BY A TRUCK! And the ending was probably supposed to be sad but sweet, but I just found it creepy. Finding out it's based on a manga by the same woman who wrote Boku wa Imouto ni Koi wo Suru actually made a lot of sense. Aoki Kotomi, you are SO WEIRD.
The Shounen Merikensack: Solanin gave me a craving for more Miyazaki Aoi, so I went for something directed by Kudo Kankuro. HOLY CRAP, SO FUNNY. Sometimes I can forget how awesome Kudo's stuff is. The best part is easily when Telya was walking around narrating his actions. "Turn left, walking, I stop to pick up some trash - but then maybe I don't." And Sato Yuki playing the punked out guitarist in the 80s is only slightly less hilarious than him playing that character's illegitimate son.
Oh KaGAAAAmi, that is so not cute.
Hebi ni Piasu: When a movie I didn't pay to see makes me feel like I want my money back, we have a freaking problem. To be fair, I haven't read the book but I'm sure it's a good adaption. It's just that I hated the plot and characters - and the one character I did like got raped and murdered! I have a really bad track record with that kind of thing. =/ It is weird how in the last week and a half I've watched three movies Kora Kengo was in, and the one where he has a billion piercings, a mohawk, and a split tongue is the one where he's completely adorable.
SO DAMN CUTE~ (Even if was a total assface in Bandage.)
Oppai Volleyball: Strangely heartwarming for a movie entirely about horny middleschool volleyball players and Ayase Haruka's boobs. This movie is so funny, omg I don't even. There's just something awesome about a group of twiggy middleschool boys running in their gym outfits while chanting "OPPAI! OPPAI!"
Seriously. What more can I say.
Aoi Tori: I was expecting it to be kind of an overwrought tearjerker, but I was really surprised. This movie is actually really, really good! I mean, it is a bit sad, but it deals with everything in a kind of simple way (even the cinematography seems really simple - clean and uncluttered, really nice) that it ended up being really powerful and touching without trying too hard. And I don't know who gave the better performance, Abe Hiroshi or Hongo Kanata, but they were both totally awesome. And because I can't talk about him without getting a little creepy, I'll just say that Hongo Kanata is utterly gorgeous when he cries.