A Hong Kong Japanese South Korean horror directed by Fruit Chan, Park Chan-wook and Takashi Miike.
Three short story films are presented. See my post on Dumplings for the first. The second involves an acting extra who has conflict with the film director. The third is about performing sisters who have a conflict over incestual fatherly love that leads one to kill the other.
Far-Eastern films always have something special, don't they? The plots of these three stories definitely held my attention. The characters were just deep enough to fill the length and not seem like dull people. The video was extremely varied with many techniques and the audio all sounded good. It was in the original languages and had good subtitles. I would go on a little bit more, but I don't want to spoil it. Overall, this is very much worth watching. I rate it good. Watch it!
A Japanese horror directed by Takashi Miike.
A widower stages a fake audition for a video in order to find a girlfriend. He falls in love with one of the contestants and everything is fine until they go on vacation together.
This developed very slowly and then got really graphic, really quickly at the end. The plot followed this pattern. For the longest time, it could have been a happy ending romance. Then time and sequence of events get distorted and the woman gets violent. The characters were actually developed quite well for a horror flick, although the woman's story remains a mystery in the end. The video had obstructed views, underexposure and dark scenes, but I could see everything and it ended up working out alright. The audio was in Japanese with good English subtitles. There were some short sections with louder "dead air" background noise, static and hum. Overall, a decent flick, but be prepared to wait for action. I rate this adequate.
A samurai film directed by Takashi Miike.A small group of samurai plan an attack on a larger group in a small town.There were some continuous battle scenes, but I didn't notice because I was playing guitar. Can you blame me? The beginning was so boring that I had to do something! The style was good, but the pacing was unbalanced. I'm rating this adequate.
