Survive style 5 film

Sekiguchi exudes a rare sense of confidence for a firsttime director, and i can imagine that. The ubiquitous tadanobu asano introduces the film, playing a man who has apparently just murdered his lovely wife reika. Survive style 5 the 2004 movie, trailers, videos and more at yidio. It was a regionfree japanese dvd, with very little english on the packaging. However, in view of the whole range of current japanesechinesetiawanese film output, anyone giving this a ten star rating should get out more. All diese geschichten sind witzig, verruckt oder seltsam. Anderson with the strange turned up a notch, director sekiguchi and writer tada spend a half hour introducing five sets of characters before bumping their stories against each other in ways that may not always be unpredictable, but. A man continually trying and failing to get his wife to stay dead. It stars tadanobu asano, kyoko koizumi, reika hashimoto, jai west, sonny chiba and vinnie jones. To that point, its hard to say what gen sekiguchis original intent was for the production, but he certainly fashioned a memorable and incredibly. Magnolia shouldnt even be mentioned in the same sentence with it. I was almost unable to contain my excitement at the moment.

They eventually become intertwined making the outcome irrational. If a guy who looks like vinnie jones gives you a hard stare and asks you whats your function in life. Its one of the strangest films ive seen but the ensemble. Firsttime feature director gen sekiguchi actually was japans leading and awardwinning director of commercials, and he brings a stunning visual style to the film the production design makes. The movie is very fast paced, jumping around from each of the five main characters, with each character having their own unique story.

Completely insane and ridiculous but the way it slowly turns into a sort of a statement on acceptance and oddly enough, forgiveness of ourselves, of others was genuinely felt. Simply put, this film is a schizophrenic experience. But even then there is always something that catches the eye. For a normal film, this would be more than enough, but in his overpopulated world, sekiguchi still found space for a professional murderer and three thieves.

Its a movie that is completely fun to watch, even if you dislike foreign films. Director gen sekiguchi and screenwriter taku tada, phenomenally successful award winners in japans advertising industry, make their featurefilm debut with. Sonny chiba has a cameo as the henpecked president of a drug company. I had absolutely no information about the film aside from the store owners vague recommendation. Add to watchlist this japanese film is a thriller about five strange stories with seemingly no connection. At times, the movie feels like monty python with a hint of fight club and national lampoons vacation series.