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Also Known As: Koi no tsumi (original) |
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| Year of first release: 2011 | |
| Director: Sono Sion (Love Exposure, Cold Fish) | |
| Actors: Miki Mizuno, Makoto Togashi, Megumi Kagurazaka | |
| Country: J | |
| Genre: Drama | |
| Conditions of visioning: 25.10.2013, Blu-ray, Home cinema | |
| Synopsis: Married to a famous poet, Kazuko (Mizuno) is at home all day, trying to be the perfect wife, but she is not really happy in her life. She will start going out for a small job and will be proposed to do modelling. | |
| Review: I really liked Love Exposure (reviewed here), at least the first half, so I was curious to see other movies from Sono Sion, in particular the two other chapters in his Hate trilogy (unlike its name indicates, it is about Love): Cold Fish and this Guilty of Romance. The movie starts well off with original ideas, characters and situations, but the elements I liked in Love Exposure cannot be found here. There is a great deal of sexual perversions, but the behavior of the characters is too unpredictable to be believable. In that sense the movie is very "Japanese", i.e. hermetic to a foreigner like me, even if I know some details of Japanese culture necessary to follow the story I thought the movie was lasting 144 minutes but fortunately I watched only the European cut (112 minutes) which was enough already. This excessive lenghts reminds me of the second half of Love Exposure. I am not sure I want to see Cold Fish after that... Note that that topic of the movie is inspired by the true story of the female executive in a big Japanese company during the day, who was a prostitute at night. |
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Rating: 3 /10
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Monday, October 28, 2013
Guilty of Romance (2011)
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Like Love Exposure, the story focuses on a certain type of perversion. More serious, the story digs deeper in the sickness of Togashi and its context (family) while letting superficial the character of Kagurazaka. I did not find the movie so long even if each scene does not bring necessarily an essential element to the tower. My Rating is 4/10.
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