Ryuhei Matsuda, Masanobu Ando, Shunsuke Kubozuka, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Jo Kanamori
Ariyoshi Jun, who works at a gay bar, is sexually violated by a customer, goes into a frenzy and kills the man. While being transported to jail, Jun meets another young male: Katzuki Shiro, an impress...( read more
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DVD Release Date: January 8, 2008
Stats: 131 reviews
An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than storytelling, the story follows two detectives trying to uncover the case. Homosexual tension and explosive violence drives the story which delive...( read more)
A series of disjointed and chaotic flashbacks tells a story of intimacy in jail. 2 inmates convicted of murder arrive the same day and through a number of interviews with other cellmates, the story slowly reveals the truth behind a mysterious death involving one of the convicted...( read more)
Well, Takashi Miike sure doesn't try to win any more fans, does he? Anyway, I can't really review this well because I'm not clever enough for Miike. I can be fairly sure that it does discuss religion and science, although existentialism was the last thing on my mind when I watche...( read more)
Watch what Miike can do with no budget and tons of creativity. I certainly don't think I would've enjoyed this story as much if told by any other director. And another great Matsuda performance.
The opening minutes of this film tell the viewer both that it is not going to be a realistic film and that is going to be philosophical, rich in metaphor, and a bit pretentious. The visual imagery of this quite surreal and expressionistic movie is striking. The performances are t...( read more)
A surreal tale of love, murder, and transcendence about two troubled young men imprisoned for the same crime.
Miike's gone on the record as saying that this is his masterpiece, and I'm not sure if I got everything out of it on the first pass that I should. I'd like to give it another look, because it has an ambitious style of narrative and low-key settings that are visually interesting,...( read more)
My favourite film of all time. If someone had asked me to define the perfect film, actors, director, etc etc then I would tell them it already exists in 46 okunen no koi.
I'll just have to link to my IMDB review for further effusivenesss: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0497876/use...( read more)
science meets faith
Earth is not love but spans "love" for how it never ends.
super Miike/blast off/FOOD FIGHT
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