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Lui is nineteen years old, beautiful, bored and unmotivated. When she meets Ama in a bar, she finds herself mesmerized by his forked tongue and moves in with him and has her own tongue pierced. Determined to push her boundaries further, she asks Amas friend Shiba to design an exquisite tattoo for her back. But what Shiba demands as payment for the tattoo leads Lui into a brutal and explicit love triangle like no other. Then, after a violent encounter on the backstreets of Tokyo, Ama vanishes and Lui must face up to the reality of her life. Snakes and Earrings (Hebi ni piasu) is a based on the novel of the same name by then 21 year old writer Hitomi Kanehara. The novel went on to win the prestigious Akutagawa Prize and sold a million copies. (Source: AsianMediaWiki) Edit Translation

  • English
  • magyar / magyar nyelv
  • dansk
  • Norsk
  • Country: Japan
  • Type: Movie
  • Release Date: Sep 20, 2008
  • Duration: 2 hr. 3 min.
  • Score: 7.1 (scored by 705 users)
  • Ranked: #8790
  • Popularity: #5943
  • Content Rating: 18+ Restricted (violence & profanity)

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Elena
11 people found this review helpful
Jan 4, 2016
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Overall 9.0
Story 7.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 10
Rewatch Value 10
It's 5 am. I'm tired.
I like the music. It was used in the right moments. That's good.
Also, I liked their appearance. Not what you would see in regular movies.
Acting was good.
At frist I was creeped out, but later I got used to it.
The story itself isn't that much, but it will definitely keep you amused. You'll want to know what happens in the end.
In the beginning i had no idea this movie is going to be about what it is, so ....well nothing, I just watched it.
And the end was a bit confusing.
I didn't dislike anything particulary. Maybe the main redhead's personality, I felt sorry for him throughout the whole movie. And the other guy will give you creeps. I'm not sure what to think about him.
I will definitely rewatch this movie, so if you're a fan of weird stuff you'll like it too.
*update (i watched it again) :
- there's like 6 characters
- their backstory doesn't exist( in the movie; )

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Seoran
1 people found this review helpful
Nov 28, 2019
Completed 0
Overall 8.5
Story 9.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 8.5
O que dizer desse filme? INTENSO! Faz um bom tempo que vi, mas acá estou!
É sensível, realista, envolvente, reflexivo, e de algum modo poético. Eu amo a atriz, Yuriko Yoshitaka, e pra variar a achei perfeita aqui! O filme é baseado num romance (livro) de mesmo nome, "Snakes and Earrings".
Bom, alguns podem não gostar desse filme, mas acredito que é preciso captar uma essência a mais para ser tragado por uma trama tão sensível e que está muito longe de ser um conto de fadas. Sério, não vejam se esperarem algo colorido e fofo porque não é nada disso.
Hebi ni Piasu conta a história de um triângulo amoroso nu e cru, mas de modo que te faz compreendê-lo. A trama romântica é envolvente, e eu diria que bastante sensual também. A escolha da atriz foi excelente. Mas eu me surpreendi muito também com a atuação densa do Arata. Você se sente estranhamente atraída por ele, e acaba se perguntando o porquê disso. É hilário! kkkkkkkkkkkk
O Kengo tem um papel de um punk que tem a língua bifurcada. Ele é intenso, pavio curto, mas acredite, muito fofo e carinhoso. Diverge um pouco do Shiba (papel do Arata), que é um tatuador com várias tatuagens e piercings estranhos, de temperamento calmo e misterioso, além de um adicto ao sadismo.
Enfim, a nossa protagonista tem a vida virada de ponta cabeça após conhecer os dois mais ou menos na mesma época.
É dramático e sensível, mas como disse, vi algo de muito poético nessa trama. Aquele significado caótico da vida, aquela moral da história que às vezes deixamos de conhecer, ou que acabamos conhecendo, mas ignorando.
Às vezes criamos algumas mentiras, vivemos utopias propositais, mascarando a realidade para que nós mesmos possamos viver. É triste, mas isso acontece, certo?
Fica portanto a recomendação de um filme que foge do senso comum.

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  • Movie: Snakes and Earrings
  • Country: Japan
  • Release Date: Sep 20, 2008
  • Duration: 2 hr. 3 min.
  • Content Rating: 18+ Restricted (violence & profanity)

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  • Score: 7.1 (scored by 705 users)
  • Ranked: #8790
  • Popularity: #5943
  • Watchers: 1,675

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