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Kagehinata ni Saku
Feb. 18th, 2008 01:52 amI went up to Saitama Shintoshin and got a huge avocado burger and watched a huge plot-twisty movie called Kagehinata ni Saku.
It is about as advertised: there's 9 main characters and their lives are all intertwined. Wait, that's not quite right. There's more like... 3 main characters in the past, 6 in the present, and 2 of them sort of don't really connect with the others as far as I can tell.
Basically, the overall theme of this movie seems to be "finding your first (lost) love". I think I understood about 70-75% of the dialogue, which equates to about that much of the plot. It was sadly not a comedy as I was expecting, but more of a... I dunno, romance/mystery? There isn't so much of a plot so much as there is a revealing of how all of these seemingly random people's lives fit together.
( I try to dissect the plot, or something, cut for spoilers not that anyone is actually going to watch this movie either )
Either way I think this movie is worth watching but I think if I ever see it again I really need subtitles. Because when you're watching a major plot-twisty cause-and-effect kind of movie it really sucks when you're not sure whether you're confused due to plot or confused due to language.
Oh, also, there were 10 minutes of previews before the movie. So if anyone reading this lives in Kanto and wants to go see a movie with me in the next month or two, here's what's coming out that I'm interested in seeing:
Gachi Boy (March 1 - Sato Ryota stars as a wrestler wannabe, looks hilarious)
Kurosagi (March 8 - the movie version of last year's dorama, I'm sure it'll suck but HEY COME ON IT'S MAKI AND YAMAPI AGAIN WOOOOOO)
Enchanted (March 14 - I remember seeing the previews for this before I left America and I was so depressed it wouldn't be out in Japan until March)
Postman (March 22 - this movie looks hella boring but it stars Nagashima Kazushige wheeeeeeeeeee!!!)
Utatama (April 5 - I saw posters for this but no preview, actually.)
Sushi Oji - The Movie! (April 22 - I still hate to admit how much I watched this dorama, but, uh, hey, Domoto Koichi in NYC! That's a win, right?)
Oh, I also saw a preview for a remake of Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress but I'm not sure whether I'm up for that or not. Anyway. WHO'S WITH ME?
It is about as advertised: there's 9 main characters and their lives are all intertwined. Wait, that's not quite right. There's more like... 3 main characters in the past, 6 in the present, and 2 of them sort of don't really connect with the others as far as I can tell.
Basically, the overall theme of this movie seems to be "finding your first (lost) love". I think I understood about 70-75% of the dialogue, which equates to about that much of the plot. It was sadly not a comedy as I was expecting, but more of a... I dunno, romance/mystery? There isn't so much of a plot so much as there is a revealing of how all of these seemingly random people's lives fit together.
( I try to dissect the plot, or something, cut for spoilers not that anyone is actually going to watch this movie either )
Either way I think this movie is worth watching but I think if I ever see it again I really need subtitles. Because when you're watching a major plot-twisty cause-and-effect kind of movie it really sucks when you're not sure whether you're confused due to plot or confused due to language.
Oh, also, there were 10 minutes of previews before the movie. So if anyone reading this lives in Kanto and wants to go see a movie with me in the next month or two, here's what's coming out that I'm interested in seeing:
Gachi Boy (March 1 - Sato Ryota stars as a wrestler wannabe, looks hilarious)
Kurosagi (March 8 - the movie version of last year's dorama, I'm sure it'll suck but HEY COME ON IT'S MAKI AND YAMAPI AGAIN WOOOOOO)
Enchanted (March 14 - I remember seeing the previews for this before I left America and I was so depressed it wouldn't be out in Japan until March)
Postman (March 22 - this movie looks hella boring but it stars Nagashima Kazushige wheeeeeeeeeee!!!)
Utatama (April 5 - I saw posters for this but no preview, actually.)
Sushi Oji - The Movie! (April 22 - I still hate to admit how much I watched this dorama, but, uh, hey, Domoto Koichi in NYC! That's a win, right?)
Oh, I also saw a preview for a remake of Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress but I'm not sure whether I'm up for that or not. Anyway. WHO'S WITH ME?
