DVD: Misa Shimizu

DVD: Misa Shimizu

DVD:

Misa Shimizu

Misa Shimizu, Nagiko Tono

Slow but not boring
This is not a film for fans of epic battles or monumental amounts of gore, nor is it for those with a short attention span. Without giving anything away, the script spends a good 50% of its time developing a very simple, cliché and generally predictable love story. It ...

The Eel

Kôji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu

New Yorker Video, 2001

Get swept along with the story of the"eel"
With a strong narrative, excellent acting, the tone wedded to the redemptive journey of the anti-hero, this a very fine film indeed. The quirky characters - working class philosophers, temper tantrum throwing rich thugs, an eccentric operatic type mad mother - plus ...

Warm Water Under a Red Bridge

Kôji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu

Home Vision Entertainment, 2003

Imamura's best!
I love this movie and I love these reviews too! Mr. Darragh O'Donoghue's review pretty much says it all, but I can't help but add my voice to the chorus of praise and try to lift this one to 5 star status! Imamura makes complicated, multi-layered films where the ...

Okoge

Misa Shimizu, Takehiro Murata

Cinevista Inc., 2003

Sad but Lively gay film from Japan
I have seen this movie so many times. The strange relationship of a gay couple and a female (okoge) is truely sentimental. This story does reflect the truth of gay males in Japan lively. They are coming out more though. I love the screen of drug queens fought ...

The Sea Is Watching

Misa Shimizu, Nagiko Tono

Sony Pictures, 2003

Slow but not boring
This is not a film for fans of epic battles or monumental amounts of gore, nor is it for those with a short attention span. Without giving anything away, the script spends a good 50% of its time developing a very simple, cliché and generally predictable love story. It ...

Akai hashi no shita no nurui mizu

Kôji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu

Imamura's best!
I love this movie and I love these reviews too! Mr. Darragh O'Donoghue's review pretty much says it all, but I can't help but add my voice to the chorus of praise and try to lift this one to 5 star status! Imamura makes complicated, multi-layered films where the ...

Dr. Akagi

Akira Emoto, Kumiko Aso

Kino International, 2003

on the edge of war
Vengence of Mine was my first exposure to Shohei Imamura, a tautly amazing movie full of dark humor, fearful violence, sexual tension and deep questions about life (note: this movie, among any other, absolutely deserves to be released on DVD). Dr. Akagi explores many ...