Be the world for her (2004)

	Also Known As: Sekai wa kanojo no tame ni aru
	Year of first release: 2004
	Director: Daisuke Hosaka
	Actors: Kei Horie, Maiko Asano
	Country: J
	Genre: SF, Drama, Romance
	Conditions of visioning: 27.05.2016, Naxoshalle, Japanese version with English subtitles, NCF2016
Synopsis: Hiroki (Horie) and Kaori (Asano) seem like two normal Japanese high school teenagers. When Hiroki mysteriously disappears, Karoi discovers a conspiracy.
Review: From a beginning romance, the movie turns into a quest mixing military conspiracy, aliens and superpowers. For a Japanese movie nothing abnormal. The movie is built really like a pot-pourri of all genres. It is finally quite funny but at the end, you do not know what you looked at. And later you forget the story very fast.  By luck the viewing was rescued by Thank you, Mom, a recent short movie of the same director. There you can see much more maturity in the story and in the story telling. The weird mom-robot becomes both friendly and strange at the same time. Some ideas of Robot & Frank are seen again, but in a different cultural context making the situations even more funny. This short cut is not rated here, but it would have been at a 7-8/10 level.
Rating: 3 /10