January 23, 2007
it lost me. seemed like a bunch of worthless people to me.
Chiaki Kominami,
Hideyuki Kasahara,
Jô Odagiri,
Marumi Shiraishi,
Ryo Kase
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A drama centering upon the friendship between Yuji and Mamoru, two angry young men working in a plant that processes oshibori--the wet hand towels found in restaurants and fast food joints. Both are a...( read more
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DVD Release Date: March 8, 2005
Stats: 161 reviews
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November 4, 2009There are many ways to take a movie like this, but I can only leave it as brilliant. This is one of those social commentary movies that will be had to fathom for US audiences, but I can still feel good about giving this 5 stars despite the one flawed scene in this movie. It?s rea...( read more)
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October 14, 2009That's what I aspire to be. The people who make those little packaged hand-wipes you get at Chili's or Buffalo Wild Wings. Will I see this? Um, no.
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September 26, 2009In the vein of Kurosawa Kiyoshi's other films, this is overflowing with the existential and the jellyfish which are kind of the same thing if you think about it.
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September 23, 2008I was expecting the main character to stick a jellyfish in someone's mailbox as a prank
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September 18, 2008where there are jellyfishes there's love <3 only one thing: WHAT THE HELL WAS ASANO WEARING?? AH AH AH. AWESOME.
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July 4, 2008Oh look, another tale of alienated Japanese youth..two brothers working in a paper towel factory, plot to release poisonous jellyfish into the waterways of Tokyo. Any film that has Asano in it is worth a look in my book, but his presence distorts the...(read more) balance of this...( read more)
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March 23, 2008Pretty good film. The story is a little odd, but the acting and cinematography are both excellent.
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January 14, 2005
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
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