An autumn afternoon 8.4/10 Beauty in mundane things like mugs, cups, trees, buildings, lights, ropes, papers, kimonos, wall clocks and many other things that seem so insignificantly hanging around, but maybe they do have deeper meanings in our also mundane life. With the shifting of times and changing in traditions from olden to modern, how can someone switch those ideals, it’s not like we are born with a switch going from traditional values to modern ones. I really enjoyed everything about this movie, I’m glad I watched it.
Good morning 1959 8.8/10 When small talk was the lubricant that kept daily life moving smoothly, simple with a lot of kindness and just caring for one another. Now small talk is seen as pretentious and conceit.
The bad sleep well 9.4/10 Even the title is worthy of praise “the bad sleep well” it sounds like there is no karma and everything is sinister. This movie is going to the favorites as one of the best noirish noir films I’ve seen. The ending is “chef’s kiss”.
Red beard 9.1/10 I really loved this movie A mentor student relationship like no other. It tells of humanity through children and adults and the lowest depths of human existence. “ The pain and loneliness of death frighten me”
Late spring 9/10 The inevitable sadness of life caused by change, is the course in life we are all too familiar with, growing up and changing from a carefree child with no worries, to growing old and realizing the sad truth that our parents are even becoming older, the change that comes after a sudden misfortune. Even good changes are followed by equal parts envy and misery. Norika is now one of my favorite female leads and how she portrays her character, many smiles act as a mask to greater feeling behind them and how the mutual sacrifice of happiness from her and her dad shows what true familial love is about. The Japanese etiquette of expressing how you really feel without saying a word or conveying action is excellently shown here. You could know how everyone felt without the need for excessive dialogue. What does a wedding dress really signify? Happiness? Or is it some form of “happiness” while accepting the oppressions that come along that era.
“Marriage may not mean happiness from the start. To expect such immediate happiness is a mistake. Happiness isn't something you wait around for. It's something you create yourself. Getting married isn't happiness. Happiness lies in the forging of a new life shared together. It may take a year or two, maybe even five or ten. Happiness comes only through effort.”
Where the wind settles 8.6/10 This is an epic that spans 6 decades, three men fleeing from China to Taiwan, while people looked familiar, it’s still a stranger among strangers in a strange world, displaced men trapped faraway in nostalgia for their home, the story flows effortlessly and the meaning of family and freedom is well delivered. Dialogue is a bit dull on some parts.
Rickshaw man 8.8/10 Away from the samurai code and into the age of modernization in Japan, one man still carries the code in his heart. Can your personality and goodness change your place in social class? Even if it does, will your heart adapt to the change? Does social classes even matter? Or is it something we are bound by invisible?
Double patty 3.7/10 Over ambitious burger commercial that dragged for 2 hours, with what seems like an assignment of a high schooler scribbled on a notepad got misplaced with the actual dialogue, then got eaten by a cat high on catnip which then proceeded to write the actual script.
Seobok 8.3/10 “Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.” - Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Immortality sounds good, but if we live forever then that removes the urgency for tomorrow, the need to do better and how we interact with each other. If there is always a “tomorrow” then what motivates me to talk today, to interact with you guys now? Nothing.
Seobok sets the premise of these simple questions of the mortal vs immortal in an excellent story, we’ve seen many times but with enough heart to keep you engaged. What makes us human? Is it the passage of time? Is it the memories?
Rajio no jikan 9.2/10 Excellent comedy I mean if I were thinner, I’d get abs from laughing. And how can someone come up with such stories is beyond me, A housewife wrote a love story for the radio hour, and they kept rewriting the story for multiple reason which leads to the funniest scenarios. Fast paced but well connected, character growth is well written and even with few slapstick comical moments, it’s still a favorite,
Intense movie about obsessive love and the loss of youth due to time, can their love withstand the troubling times? Actually this is probably the only movie that has Tiananmen events of 1989 covered from the students point of view. Banned in China!
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8.4/10
Beauty in mundane things like mugs, cups, trees, buildings, lights, ropes, papers, kimonos, wall clocks and many other things that seem so insignificantly hanging around, but maybe they do have deeper meanings in our also mundane life.
With the shifting of times and changing in traditions from olden to modern, how can someone switch those ideals, it’s not like we are born with a switch going from traditional values to modern ones.
I really enjoyed everything about this movie, I’m glad I watched it.
“At the end of the road, we are all alone,,, eh?”
4/10
8.8/10
When small talk was the lubricant that kept daily life moving smoothly, simple with a lot of kindness and just caring for one another.
Now small talk is seen as pretentious and conceit.
9.4/10
Even the title is worthy of praise “the bad sleep well” it sounds like there is no karma and everything is sinister.
This movie is going to the favorites as one of the best noirish noir films I’ve seen.
The ending is “chef’s kiss”.
9.1/10
I really loved this movie
A mentor student relationship like no other.
It tells of humanity through children and adults and the lowest depths of human existence.
“ The pain and loneliness of death frighten me”
9/10
The inevitable sadness of life caused by change, is the course in life we are all too familiar with, growing up and changing from a carefree child with no worries, to growing old and realizing the sad truth that our parents are even becoming older, the change that comes after a sudden misfortune.
Even good changes are followed by equal parts envy and misery.
Norika is now one of my favorite female leads and how she portrays her character, many smiles act as a mask to greater feeling behind them and how the mutual sacrifice of happiness from her and her dad shows what true familial love is about.
The Japanese etiquette of expressing how you really feel without saying a word or conveying action is excellently shown here.
You could know how everyone felt without the need for excessive dialogue.
What does a wedding dress really signify? Happiness? Or is it some form of “happiness” while accepting the oppressions that come along that era.
“Marriage may not mean happiness from the start. To expect such immediate happiness is a mistake. Happiness isn't something you wait around for. It's something you create yourself. Getting married isn't happiness. Happiness lies in the forging of a new life shared together. It may take a year or two, maybe even five or ten. Happiness comes only through effort.”
8.6/10
This is an epic that spans 6 decades, three men fleeing from China to Taiwan, while people looked familiar, it’s still a stranger among strangers in a strange world, displaced men trapped faraway in nostalgia for their home, the story flows effortlessly and the meaning of family and freedom is well delivered.
Dialogue is a bit dull on some parts.
8.8/10
Away from the samurai code and into the age of modernization in Japan, one man still carries the code in his heart.
Can your personality and goodness change your place in social class? Even if it does, will your heart adapt to the change? Does social classes even matter? Or is it something we are bound by invisible?
3.7/10
Over ambitious burger commercial that dragged for 2 hours, with what seems like an assignment of a high schooler scribbled on a notepad got misplaced with the actual dialogue, then got eaten by a cat high on catnip which then proceeded to write the actual script.
8.3/10
“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.” - Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Immortality sounds good, but if we live forever then that removes the urgency for tomorrow, the need to do better and how we interact with each other.
If there is always a “tomorrow” then what motivates me to talk today, to interact with you guys now? Nothing.
Seobok sets the premise of these simple questions of the mortal vs immortal in an excellent story, we’ve seen many times but with enough heart to keep you engaged.
What makes us human? Is it the passage of time? Is it the memories?
9.2/10
Excellent comedy I mean if I were thinner, I’d get abs from laughing.
And how can someone come up with such stories is beyond me,
A housewife wrote a love story for the radio hour, and they kept rewriting the story for multiple reason which leads to the funniest scenarios.
Fast paced but well connected, character growth is well written and even with few slapstick comical moments, it’s still a favorite,
Actually this is probably the only movie that has Tiananmen events of 1989 covered from the students point of view. Banned in China!