Showing posts with label Japanese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japanese. Show all posts

23 Mar 2016

TRUE JAPANESE, BUT SOMEWHAT EMPTY



Hirokazu Koreeda is a director and scriptwriter focused almost entirely on family relationships and when you hear he has a new title, you know it's going to be good, complicated and full of hope.

„Our little sister” will take you on a journey through both traditional, as well as the modern Japan, and will picture the entire society flawlessly. However, the story itself will not take you anywhere, besides some occasional laughs and not much more. Script about the young girl that decides to live with her three half-sisters after the death of the common father deserved a little more elaboration and conclusion.

„Our little sister” is a movie for hardcore lovers of Japanese culture and not many more.




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3 Aug 2015

CLASSIC SAMURAI FLICK

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Samurai movies have a very rigid script. Honor, treason, reconciliation, major showdown at the end.

”The hidden blade” has all that, as well as the traditional Asian overacting. Brutality is also there, but only occasionally used to spice up the slow rhythm of the entire flick.

If you are a fan of samurai culture, this is a movie for you. If not, better to stay away.




15 Jun 2015

QUALITY AND TIMELESNESS


Japanese legends represent one of the major topics for their cinematography, but with variable success rate.

”Love and honor” is in its core basically an epic folk poem about the young samurai that turns blind after tasting poisonous food for the local shogun. His misfortunes that follow the accident are pretty much typical, including one of the major subjects of the traditional Japanese movie, adultery.

Overall rhythm is slow, but very intense, including the much expected catharsis of our hero that wins the hearts of everyone in the audience with his persistence and reverence. Camera is pretty much consistent, focusing on the wider shots. The end, is as always different from those that people from the West are used to.

”Love and honor” is one of the finest Japanese traditional tales ever to see the big screen and a warm recommendation for every true movie lover.