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lebateleur) wrote2009-03-14 11:48 pm
lebateleur) wrote2009-03-14 11:48 pm
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I haven't been ficcing recently...
...so I give you six recent Asian movies in fifty words each.
Go.
Antique Bakery, in which Tachibana, played by Joo Ji-hoon (aka "That Asshole from Goong"), inexplicably gets some cabaret-style dance numbers and Ono is way sexier outside Kabukicho than is his manga counterpart, which rather spoils the "mashou no gei" effect. Otherwise, it's a pretty solid adaptation; I’d buy the DVD.
Painted Skin is based on one of the five gazillion stories in Strange Tales of Liaozhai. It's very pretty visually, but (as with most such stories) the pragmatist in me can't help but think that the main characters' problems would be solved if they'd just start using their heads already.
Butterfly Lovers is what happens when you take a classic Chinese romance, remove the emphasis on understated emotion, rework it as a cheesy C-drama, and cast a "cute 'n' plucky" actress as Zhu Yingtai. Sorry, only an idiot would think she's a guy. Luckily, Wu Chun looks like Lee Joon-gi.
Modern Boy is one part melodramatic love story to two parts Korean nationalism. That said, it's one of the more entertaining movies in this bunch: the actors all look the part, the nationalism isn't as overwrought as it could have been, the twists are interesting, and Kim Hye-su can dance.
The Devotion of Suspect X: The "supergenius solves a crime mere mortals could never hope to understand" premise is rather spoiled by several Very Big And Obvious Plot Holes. That said, the relationship between Yukawa and Ishigami has done more to inspire this slasher than anything else in recent memory.
Witness: The slo-mo effects were cool, but the "all their lives were irrevocably altered by this one chance meeting" thing has been done to death. I appreciated that there were no clear heroes or villains, but got the feeling the scriptwriter had no freaking idea how to finish the movie.
これで以上です。
Go.
Antique Bakery, in which Tachibana, played by Joo Ji-hoon (aka "That Asshole from Goong"), inexplicably gets some cabaret-style dance numbers and Ono is way sexier outside Kabukicho than is his manga counterpart, which rather spoils the "mashou no gei" effect. Otherwise, it's a pretty solid adaptation; I’d buy the DVD.
Painted Skin is based on one of the five gazillion stories in Strange Tales of Liaozhai. It's very pretty visually, but (as with most such stories) the pragmatist in me can't help but think that the main characters' problems would be solved if they'd just start using their heads already.
Butterfly Lovers is what happens when you take a classic Chinese romance, remove the emphasis on understated emotion, rework it as a cheesy C-drama, and cast a "cute 'n' plucky" actress as Zhu Yingtai. Sorry, only an idiot would think she's a guy. Luckily, Wu Chun looks like Lee Joon-gi.
Modern Boy is one part melodramatic love story to two parts Korean nationalism. That said, it's one of the more entertaining movies in this bunch: the actors all look the part, the nationalism isn't as overwrought as it could have been, the twists are interesting, and Kim Hye-su can dance.
The Devotion of Suspect X: The "supergenius solves a crime mere mortals could never hope to understand" premise is rather spoiled by several Very Big And Obvious Plot Holes. That said, the relationship between Yukawa and Ishigami has done more to inspire this slasher than anything else in recent memory.
Witness: The slo-mo effects were cool, but the "all their lives were irrevocably altered by this one chance meeting" thing has been done to death. I appreciated that there were no clear heroes or villains, but got the feeling the scriptwriter had no freaking idea how to finish the movie.
これで以上です。