Vital
Shinya Tsukamoto is probably one of the most interesting director working in Japan. I think he’s also one of the few directors whose’s new films are better than the last. That’s pretty amazing actually.
Anyway he released Vital last year, and of course it went totally unnoticed here, that’s why i’m only talking about it now.
Also i’m a lazy bastard so i don’t keep up with the news. Who can blame me anyway. Nobody reads this. It stars Tadanobu Asano who shaved for the occasion. It’s a love story about an amnesic guy, anatomy and a corpse and it’s beautiful.
You can see the trailer here, the official site here and a review from the Rolls Royce of japanese movies websites midnight eye, here.
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May 28th, 2005 at 5:53 pm
your site is awsome, really. I just found my way here a couple of minutes ago and still have to take a good look around here, but the site is already saved in my favs.
I haven’t heard of that movie before (shame on me as I’m a Asano fan >.<) but it sounds really interesting.
So far I’ve only seen one movie from Shinya Tsukamoto, that was Gemini and I really liked his style.
May 28th, 2005 at 5:55 pm
…but it sounds really interesting.
So far I’ve only seen one movie from Shinya Tsukamoto, that was Gemini and I really liked his style.
July 6th, 2005 at 4:11 pm
Finally got to see the movie. Waited until after seeing it to read the Midnight Eye review. Have to admit, the review really helped me see a lot deeper into this film (I guess I tend to just stare at Tsukamoto’s films, but what does he expect? :-) )
One tiny detail I have not seen mentioned. At least for the DVD I watched, in the very beginning, there is a short shot that could have been directly plundered from the opening credits of the movie “Kwaidan” — the part where the black ink is sinking into the pink liquid. Did anyone notice this? Is there some meaning? Or is it just an homage to that beautiful piece of art film (specifically the opening credits, which I admit I have watched as a separate “film” over and over again myself)?
July 14th, 2005 at 2:55 am
well, I saw this film in the International Film Festival of Sitges (Spain). I found it boring boring boring… It was an horror movie or a romantic movie or..what? What the hell was doing Asano there?
[there is a short shot that could have been directly plundered from the opening credits of the movie “Kwaidan” – the part where the black ink is sinking into the pink liquid. Did anyone notice this? Is there some meaning?]—> I agree, but.. the rest of the film was a fake!