I'm giving this movie a half n half of five in order to say, that as a guy-- this movie may play differently to a fem. I gave this one a try in my usual weekly attempts to see NON-Hollywood flicks. As a rule, I stay away from chick-flicks because there isn't enough action or thriller plot to hold my attention (Doesn't mean they're bad! I guess I'm admitting to a limitation)
Like others have said before-- visually nice and evocative of what Tokyo at night must be like. The transitions between her drawings and the story are very well done. And the storyline about the lives of foreign girls in the Host Bars has an initial draw of the outre. As a Guy, I found the story's rendition of what the Japanese male clientele are like to be creepy.
But past the initial impression, for a Guy with not too sophisticated tastes, the movie becomes super languid. There is a plot-- but it's all smothered by a female tempo. Dialogue is all soft-soft talk, murmurs, glances, sidelong looks, smouldering looks, turned shoulders, tentative gazes. . .by the time someone SLAPPED someone-- I was like ALRIGHT!!!
Then it slide back down to murmury girl-talk.
If you're a guy-- get this movie if you need to score brownie points with your significant other.
Like others have said before-- visually nice and evocative of what Tokyo at night must be like. The transitions between her drawings and the story are very well done. And the storyline about the lives of foreign girls in the Host Bars has an initial draw of the outre. As a Guy, I found the story's rendition of what the Japanese male clientele are like to be creepy.
But past the initial impression, for a Guy with not too sophisticated tastes, the movie becomes super languid. There is a plot-- but it's all smothered by a female tempo. Dialogue is all soft-soft talk, murmurs, glances, sidelong looks, smouldering looks, turned shoulders, tentative gazes. . .by the time someone SLAPPED someone-- I was like ALRIGHT!!!
Then it slide back down to murmury girl-talk.
If you're a guy-- get this movie if you need to score brownie points with your significant other.