Based on a short story by Shuichi Yoshida, whose fiction also inspired the critically acclaimed “Villain” and “A Story of Yonosuke”, the film won the Special Jury Prize at the 35th Moscow International Film Festival, although in Japan, it was mainly praised for Yoko Maki’s performance.
The script implements a rather unusual narrative, as it begins with a number of reporters besieging an apartment where a woman suspected of murdering her own baby lives. Eventually the police arrest her and the focus turns to the couple having sex door, Shunsuke and Kanako. A bit later, we are introduced to Watanabe, a reporter covering the story, who seems to have marital issues. The woman arrested informs the police that she had an affair with Shunsuke and that turns the attention of Watanabe and his partner, Kobayashi to him. Eventually they dig up his past, which involved a rape,...
The script implements a rather unusual narrative, as it begins with a number of reporters besieging an apartment where a woman suspected of murdering her own baby lives. Eventually the police arrest her and the focus turns to the couple having sex door, Shunsuke and Kanako. A bit later, we are introduced to Watanabe, a reporter covering the story, who seems to have marital issues. The woman arrested informs the police that she had an affair with Shunsuke and that turns the attention of Watanabe and his partner, Kobayashi to him. Eventually they dig up his past, which involved a rape,...
- 1/14/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The second film from Takahisa Zeze for 2018, after “My Friend A” is a humongous production of 189 minutes, based on two actual “stories” and a rather unusual film for the Japanese veteran, who, in the latest years, seems to indulge in a diversity he was not able to explore during his youth. At times, I thought that his effort was similar to the one of another great director who started his career in pinku films and eventually shot a 3-hour political film, Koji Wakamatsu, whose “The Red Army” shares some similarities in style with the present film, although his approach was much more documentary-like.
The story uses the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake as its base, before it extends into two arcs, which eventually overlap.
The first one deals with women’s sumo, a sport which was initiated in the early 18th century and was popular in rural areas until the 1960’s. The...
The story uses the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake as its base, before it extends into two arcs, which eventually overlap.
The first one deals with women’s sumo, a sport which was initiated in the early 18th century and was popular in rural areas until the 1960’s. The...
- 12/12/2018
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
In today’s film news roundup, Mel Gibson and Charlie Hunnam are starring in “Waldo,” romantic drama “Stay” gets picked up and the Academy is partnering with the African American Film Critics Association.
Castings
Mel Gibson, Charlie Hunnam and Eiza González are attached to star in Tim Kirkby’s action-thriller “Waldo.”
Andrew Lazar, Christina Weiss Lurie and Steve Shainberg will produce. Imr International is handling foreign sales, which will launch at the American Film Market, which opens Oct. 31 in Santa Monica, Calif. CAA Media Finance is handling the Us rights.
The movie will be shot in the first quarter and center on a disgraced former Lapd detective, played by Hunnam, living the life of a minimalist in the woods. His quiet life comes to a startling halt when he is roped back into working as a private eye to investigate the murder of an eccentric television star’s wife.
Gibson...
Castings
Mel Gibson, Charlie Hunnam and Eiza González are attached to star in Tim Kirkby’s action-thriller “Waldo.”
Andrew Lazar, Christina Weiss Lurie and Steve Shainberg will produce. Imr International is handling foreign sales, which will launch at the American Film Market, which opens Oct. 31 in Santa Monica, Calif. CAA Media Finance is handling the Us rights.
The movie will be shot in the first quarter and center on a disgraced former Lapd detective, played by Hunnam, living the life of a minimalist in the woods. His quiet life comes to a startling halt when he is roped back into working as a private eye to investigate the murder of an eccentric television star’s wife.
Gibson...
- 10/30/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
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