Kyôko Koizumi, Masahiro Hirota, Asami Imajuku

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Directed by: Toshiaki Toyoda

Release Date: May 12, 2005

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  • June 7, 2009
    Only from Japan. This has a sensibility and sense of humor similar to ADRIFT IN TOKYO and FUNUKE, SHOW SOME LOVE, YOU LOSERS! Bizarro-land family dynamics. Things are said where the delivery and body language don't play at the same level of intensity as the words. Kyôko Koizumi p...( read more)lays this kind of role perfectly, similar to her character in ADRIFT. Hiromi Nagasaku also has a wonderful small role. The soundtrack is a little trite and annoying in parts as are the 360 degree camera swings but it's funny and intense with a spectacular ending.
  • November 21, 2008
    blegh, probably my least favourite of Toyoda's films, this one was slow, and not the good kind, it just draggggsss at some places, didnt have the subdued brutality of his other films, there was one redeeming scene though
    *SPOILER*


    the ending scene when she's screaming her head ...( read more)off dancing in a rain of blood
  • August 1, 2007
    The masquerade that every "functionning" contemporary family lives to a certain extent. It shares the ideology with the film "Happiness" that often within the most seemingly perfect family model hides the crudest reality beneath. It was a joy for me to see the truths they were hi...( read more)ding from each other explode in their faces (literally for the father). It left me wondering: must we stop living a lie or is pretending to be happy the only way to be? "If you stick to your story, it stops being a lie."

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