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Year: 2009

Country: Japan

Director: Masayuki Miyano

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy

Runtime: 93 min

Language: Japanese

Subtitles: None at time of post

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1306985/

Cast Hiroki Narimiya, Tomoko Murakami, Yuri Nakamura, Mari Hamada, Tetsu Watanabe, Yoshiyuki Morishita, Sarutoki Minagawa

Synopsis/ Plot

In 2007, Tetsuya Nakashima’s MEMORIES OF MATSUKO easily took home the New York Asian Film Festival’s Audience Award, beating out the nearest contender by hundreds of votes. This year, we have a movie written by him and directed by first-time director Masayuki Miyano who recreates the Jolly Rancher-colored, anything-goes surrealist spirit of MEMORIES OF MATSUKO only this time the film isn’t about love overcoming all obstacles. This time the movie is about sex. Really dirty sex.

Adapted from a sex-stuffed cult novel, LALAPIPO (a play on the phrase “A Lot of Peopleâ€) follows divergent seedy strands of sexual and narrative spaghetti through the sticky Tokyo night. There’s a chubby freelance writer who’s so obsessed with masturbating to the sound of his upstairs neighbors going at it that he forgets to deal with his own love life and when he finally does have sex he is immediately filled with self-loathing. The upstairs neighbor’s story then splits off like an amoeba: she’s an office lady seduced by a “talent scout†who is falling down the sex industry ladder, moving from hostess, to massage girl, to private karaoke attendant. The talent scout’s story then splits off and runs in its own direction, revealing the sorry state of this young pimp’s soul. From there, the movie takes more and more time to consider the lives of more and more characters until the entire Japanese sex industry is filled with the wailing of lost souls.

But don’t despair, because this movie is also full of talking penises, UFOs, fetishes so bizarre they’re not even on the internet yet, giant superheroes, and some of the sickest jokes that you’ll hate yourself for laughing at. It’s all a great big ball of fun, and no matter how sordid things get the movie never loses its sense of optimism that maybe tonight things are going to get better and this time around the sex might really mean something.

The film recently had its North American Premier in New York City on June 28, 2009 with English subtitles. Unfortunately the DVD release is devoid of any subtitling. Curiously though, imdb has the film at 120 minutes, yet the DVD release has only 93 minutes.

Title: Saishu Heiki Kanojo (Saikano Live Action)

Year Released: 2005

Directed By: Taikan Suga

Running Time: 115 Minutes

Genre:  Action / Fantasy / Sci-fi

IMDB Link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0826175/

Review:

Shuji and Chise are two Hokkaido high school students barely starting a relationship with each other. Then, with no warning, an squadron of bombers from an unknown country destroy the city of Sapporo. All hope is lost when suddenly, the bombers are destroyed by a small red light floating across the sky. At this point, Shuji finds out that the one responsible for eliminating the enemy forces is Chise, who reveals herself as a cyborg engineered for mass-destruction.

Cast:

Masat? Ibu

Shihori Kanjiya … Akemi

Takuji Kawakubo

Ryo Kimura … Atsushi

Shunsuke Kubozuka … Shuji

Aki Maeda … Chise

Satoshi Nikaido

Miki Sakai

Kiyohiko Shibukawa

Kanji Tsuda

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