This film is co-produced by France and Kiyoshi Kurosawa,
once upon a time maybe even my favourite film director, who
delivers what the french wants and yet again was rewarded with winning
Best Director in the Un Certain regard section.
His superior Tokyo Sonata won in 2008. This film is about some spirital
journey and KK tells us about accompanying
a dying person - Mitoru, in the booklet, or as in this film accompanying,
travelling with a dead person, a spirit.
So, the unavoidable question is ....
Where's Jennifer Lowe Hewitt in this sentimental and
overrated artmovie version of Ghost Whisperer?
At least, her boobies are impressive
and well worth some hours of watching, YES, i'm guilty, i confess to
have watched
this awful sentimental and syrupy TV series for the one sole reason
of staring at beautiful Jennifer. So, i'm a male ...
European artmovie audiences, suck it in ....
really deep stuff, people standing staring at a landscape, WOW!
Where's the delightfully quirky auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa ? Is He No More
? Like the parrot in the classic Monty Python
joke - he has ceased to be. Hopefully not though, he's only pining for
the japanese ... eeh, fjords.
Let's forget about this stiff and lifeless made to order sentimental
drama where Asano is sleepwalking through his part.
European producers please stay away from Japanese film with your disgusting
paws and tired artmovie sentiments adjusted
for european asshole film critic farts. STAY AWAY. The reason Kiyoshi
Kurosawa had an international cult following
was that he created this unique universe of his, the KK zone, without
looking to please european producers or trying to
be some new Kore eda guy, which Kurosawa isn't. Why abandon this unique
style of his ?
Eri
The Great Eri Fukatsu plays the pensive
piano teacher and widow Mizuki Yabuuchi. Suddenly, after 3 years, her
missing husband Yusuke (Tadanobu Asano) shows up in her/their apartment,
and he's perfectly dead.
She accompanies him on a spiritual journey to the shore
where he committed suicide, but not before visiting some
places where he stayed and lived on his way back to her (after his death).
Basically, just like Jennifer, they help
some dead people that stubbornly stays on move on to the other side.
But in a more artful way then ... you don't
please the French critics doing it the Jennifer Lowe Hewitt way with
tons of tears, syrup and boobies.
Or .... ? Mizuki meets her dead father at the end of the film - oh,
very gripping, sob, and she asks him "have you
met mother at the other side?" - sob, yuck! .... Kiyoshi Kurosawa,
how could you ? Disgusting. You Sell-Out
Booklet
widescreen 2.35:1, japanese audio 5.1 or 2.0 stereo
with english subs, trailer and a booklet with text from
Kiyoshi Kurosawa. I watched the Bluray disc
