Memories of Matsuko
Starring Miki Natkatani, Eita, Yusuke Iseya
Directed by Tetsuya Nakashima
Not Rated
If Kaleidoscopes could talk- (and sing)- they’d be the offbeat and quirky tragicomedy, Memories of Matsuko. This swiftly paced, jump-cutting musical film seems in, the first few scenes, like a head-long dive through the mind of an emotionally detached, music-video addicted adolescent. Instead, the film elicits torn feelings of contempt, irritation and wonder as it arrives, singing and dancing, at the core of tragedy, and all the blood spattered, rainbow-hued redemption therein. The Japanese film is based on a the novel of the same name by Muneki Yamada . Worth watching, Memories of Matsuko induces a kind of critical bi-polar state as it shifts between styles, genres and points of view.
Memories of Matsuko recounts the heatbreaking life of an innocent and idealistic former junior high school teacher, Matsuko Kawajiri (Miki Nakatani), as it...
Starring Miki Natkatani, Eita, Yusuke Iseya
Directed by Tetsuya Nakashima
Not Rated
If Kaleidoscopes could talk- (and sing)- they’d be the offbeat and quirky tragicomedy, Memories of Matsuko. This swiftly paced, jump-cutting musical film seems in, the first few scenes, like a head-long dive through the mind of an emotionally detached, music-video addicted adolescent. Instead, the film elicits torn feelings of contempt, irritation and wonder as it arrives, singing and dancing, at the core of tragedy, and all the blood spattered, rainbow-hued redemption therein. The Japanese film is based on a the novel of the same name by Muneki Yamada . Worth watching, Memories of Matsuko induces a kind of critical bi-polar state as it shifts between styles, genres and points of view.
Memories of Matsuko recounts the heatbreaking life of an innocent and idealistic former junior high school teacher, Matsuko Kawajiri (Miki Nakatani), as it...
- 10/23/2010
- by Melanee Murray
- GetTheBigPicture.net
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