Takeshi Kaneshiro, Manami Konishi, Junko Fuji

Kaneshiro plays a Grim Reaper who appears to his victims in human form and spends a week with them before deciding whether to off them or not.

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Unrated, 113 min

Directed by: Masaya Kakei

Release Date: March 22, 2008

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  • August 31, 2009
    a god of death whose job always in rainy day..
    nice story..
    make you wonders about life and the bright side of it..
  • August 4, 2009
    This movie was much better than I dared to expect.

    While at first it would seem that the movie consist of three separate parts - or jobs - in the end they come together in a very interesting way you can't guess beforehand. The hints are all over the movie, but they come across s...( read more)o casually that you can't really put them all together before you're at the end.

    Takeshi Kaneshiro is absolutely gorgeous in his role, a Grim Reaper who is always followed by rain when he works; he has never seen the blue sky. With the beautiful black dog and crows following him around, it's both a deep and comical journey for "Chiba" who has so much to learn about life and its importance to the people living it; he judges whether it is the time for a person to pass on or not, and following his contacts around slowly leads him to discover that the matter of life and death isn't so simple after all.

    Manami Konishi as Kazue Fujiki was dazzlingly beautiful and awkward, a flower waiting to bloom. Takuay Ishida was totally lost and out of it in a way, a broken kid with a heart in the right place who grew into a whole adult it would seem. Mitsuru Fukikoshi as Fujita was a man of old habits and principles, yet a character who grew strong by the end of his part.

    All in all the story was beautiful, sarcastic, and didn't seem quite as long as it actually was. The pace of the plot was slow and steady, and seemed a little aimless at times, but everything had a purpose in this movie.

    Definitely worth a watch!
  • July 5, 2009
    loved this!! a story of death, but it's actually cozy, and meaningful...
  • April 6, 2009
    from this movie, you realize that not matter what hair takeshi kaneshiro has, he will ALWAYS look good.

    Think, meet joe black, but asian. (and takeshi kaneshiro for brad pitt. lol)
    although he's not THE grim reaper, he's just A grim reaper. get it?
  • March 16, 2009
    apa yang kau pikirkan tentang kematian???

    waduh ni film mang bikin kita berfikir akan kematian.

    jadi ingat2..kematian itu kejadian biasa tapi amat penting.

    jangan si2 kan hidup mu..heeee

    ni film takeshi !!!
    jadi suka2 ja.
    sebenernya filmnya agak lucu,,tapi will sama skali gak...( read more) ketawa..heee
  • January 16, 2009
    Visionné dans le cadre du festival Fantasia 2008.

    L'univers de Accuracy of Death, comme c'est quelquefois le cas pour ces films magiques étrangers, finit inévitablement par venir à la rencontre d'un trou noir qui aspire le potentiel du long-métrage, soit celui de devenir...( read more) un véritable chef-d'oeuvre qui ensorcèle les cinéphiles de ce monde. Avec pour point central l'Ange de la Mort, un faucheur chargé d'évaluer si l'heure de la mort est effectivement venue pour certains protagonistes, Masaya Kakei nous confronte à un tête-à-tête lyrique avec la Mort elle-même. À travers des plans sublimes qui, comme la mort, effraient par leur magnificence, Accuracy of Death se veut une épopée mélancolique de la quête de la vérité dans un monde où la vérité elle-même n'existe pas. Accompagné de son chien noir et assisté de l'innocence du public, Chiba juge hebdomadairement des vies humaines par l'étendue de potentiel qu'il leur reste à accomplir en ce bas-monde.

    Cette industrie de dilemmes est perturbante pour l'auditoire qui s'attache à l'acteur principal Takeshi Kaneshiro, et qui rapidement ne sait plus si elle doit ou non appuyer la cause qu'il représente. Là où le trou noir aspire l'immensité même du potentiel de Accuracy of Death, c'est que le film, aussi réductif puisse cela paraître, se laisse facilement comparer à un sandwich sans viande. Car si l'on a la chance, d'entrée de jeu, d'amorcer ce récit fantastique en croquant dans la mie d'une histoire formidable, soit celle d'une violoncelliste dont l'histoire tragique amène pour la toute première fois Chiba à lui accorder la vie sauve, et que l'histoire du dénouement, celle d'une vieille dame en quête du bonheur, se veut aussi inspirante que la première, il n'en est pas de même pour le pilier central du film. Présenté à la manière d'un tryptique cinématographique, Accuracy of Death s'empêche d'établir un nouveau standard en la matière de cinéma japonais simplement parce que l'histoire centrale, soit celle d'un yakuza mafieux insipide, est horriblement faible comparé aux deux autres, et présente un affreux défaut de continuité dans l'histoire puisqu'elle n'affiche aucun lien viable avec la continuité du film.

    Par contre, rien que pour les deux extrémités du film, Accuracy of Death vaut véritablement la peine d'être vu puisqu'il constitue, en un sens, un rendez-vous unique avec la Mort qu'il ne vous sera plus jamais possible de revivre à nouveau.
  • October 27, 2008
    It's an inspirational movie, and quite special of the structure of plot, and the most attract me is the Grim Reaper....i like his humor performances.
  • October 18, 2008
    the tone was beautiful
  • September 23, 2008
    nice~this is a good movie,about death,
    use the logical thinking when watch this movie bcos im difficult to understand

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