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Vital
Today most shops were still closed, most New Year sales beginning tomorrow, so there wasn't much to do. However it being the first day of the month it was "movie day" which allows to see any movie for only ¥1000 (compared to the usual ¥1300-1800), so we went to see Tsukamoto Shinya's latest movie, "Vital".
Tsukamoto was also the director of "Gemini" (1999) which I had liked a lot.
The movie is about a guy who survives a car accident which left him without his memory. He enters a medical school and then progressively has flashbacks making him realize that the body he's been dissecting is his old girlfriend, who had died in the car accident.
It's a quite strange and dark psychologic journey into the main character's mind. Despite the macabre topic it's not horror and contains no suspense or big surprises, it's more of a psychologic drama.
I thought it wasn't bad, and it kept me interested through the end. It's however a slow-paced and quiet film with some lengths. The visuals were especially nice.
Posted on January 1, 2005 at 22:19 | Tweet
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seems moblog is not THAT fast :) 1 h after lunch and the pic does not show up yet?
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Greetings from the apple store in Ginza：）
Posted by peter on January 2, 2005 at 14:25
Actually it seems the server is down today. I hope it will get back soon so I can put up the pics. Or I may give in and plug in my memory card and do it manually. :)
Thanks for the nice time today! It was great to see you both!
Posted by Patrick on January 2, 2005 at 18:40
The movie "Vital" seems to be something I would be interested in seeing as well... though I will have to wait until it has subtitles in English for me. Y1000 is Yasui for a movie. I am paying Y1,400 here on Hawaii to see a movie. I wish there was a special like that here on the islands. Thank you.
Posted by George Provencher on January 3, 2005 at 14:24
wow ... 1,400Y a movie ticket in Hawaii? I am on a very different Pacific Island (when I am not in Tokyo, having lunch with Pat): Fiji ... our tickets are 5FJD = 250Y gurai
and we get pretty much all movies same US release or a week later, well, some smaller movies are always MIA ... but we get stuff before AU gets it often
Posted by Peter on January 3, 2005 at 17:43
Happy New Year Patrick! Hope you have a great 2005! x Kinki
Posted by Kinki on January 5, 2005 at 17:30
Thank you very much Kinki! Happy New Year to you too! :)
Posted by Patrick on January 5, 2005 at 17:47