Hum... I can say that I liked this movie but in the end if felt pointless. I imagine with the longer TV version has more to it at the end.
And without ironies and cynicism, for a "musical" movie maybe half made to promote the singer, this movie have have a bit "too much music", and excesso of music in some moments.
ps: this movie suffers A LOT at the middle after Suzu Hirose's character vanishes.
Yuki's testimony was a very BAD defense. It made it look like she asked Hidemaru to kill the guy. Oh boys, it's another case of a japanese movie with a "speech" in the end that when you think about it doesn't say what needs to be said or doesn't make much sense.
Anyway, there's no way Hidemaru can escape conviction, it was premeditated murder.
It's an interesting movie, as expected from what I know of Susumu Hani, but I failed to understand what this movie is about. Unless that what happened is not what happens in the story...
I feel this movie is unbalanced. And it's story and in the acting opportunities. Minori Hagiwara gets the best role to how her acting, and it's good. Yui Imaizumi gets nothing. Maybe because she was an ex-idol the production didn't trust her to deliver a good performance, she doesn't even get the opportunity to try (and apparently no one gave her better opportunities after this movie, a pity). Ai Yoshikawa gets in the middle, in both opportunities and results.
Tell me, what does Godzilla represents in Minus One? This is something that I disliked about this movie, this version of Gojira. Felt just like "an animal", aimless. A poor creature that was a bit confused and as put down by the humans that couldn't live with it.
There's a scene that suggests it went ashore because it was hit by murrican nuclear tests, but if so he was just a bit annoyed and that was it. Didn't acted or felt like "a force" giving his usual judgment. And how could this Gojira do this? After all, "they did nothing wrong
Toranaga being a "keikaku master" makes no sense when it was very, very clear how much the earthquake fucked his plans with his army and that he only escaped death because of this son unintentionally seppuking.
Also, it's just my mind playing tricks, or most of this episode was just a dream?
Also, another potential bs - assisting in jigai, female seppuku. Women usually did it alone, nobody helped them…
Maybe you missed the most important aspect of the whole scene, the religious? As a christian, suicide is the biggest sin, she would go straight to hell. That's why she asks Kiyama to assistis her. By having a second to actually end her life she avoid the sin of suicide. John understands this, that's why he volunteers and talks about hell.
Mariko was the MVP in this episode, but as I've said this before, her character is suicidal for no good reason,…
Is a mix of personal feelings and duty. She puts her duty and honor above her wishes, that's why she can't kill herself if not allowed by her "master".
Volunteers to cut her head. She falls in love with you. Onna Musha Logic.
To quote The Master, Mr. Anno Hideaki: "What a woman..." But seriously, what the fuck was this ending?! Makes no sense for Mariko to do that, after what had just happened with her!
I also don't understand Ishido. If he had left Mariko go would be bad for a reason, if he hadn't let her got would be bad for another reason. Which one he did choose in the end? BOTH! He choose the option that gave him TRIPLE the backlash, making him lose the most allies!
Glad I was wrong.
But still...
I imagine with the longer TV version has more to it at the end.
And without ironies and cynicism, for a "musical" movie maybe half made to promote the singer, this movie have have a bit "too much music", and excesso of music in some moments.
ps: this movie suffers A LOT at the middle after Suzu Hirose's character vanishes.
Oh boys, it's another case of a japanese movie with a "speech" in the end that when you think about it doesn't say what needs to be said or doesn't make much sense.
Anyway, there's no way Hidemaru can escape conviction, it was premeditated murder.
Unless that what happened is not what happens in the story...
Taeko was played like a fiddled.
edit: actually, I noticed but had forgotten!
And it's story and in the acting opportunities.
Minori Hagiwara gets the best role to how her acting, and it's good.
Yui Imaizumi gets nothing. Maybe because she was an ex-idol the production didn't trust her to deliver a good performance, she doesn't even get the opportunity to try (and apparently no one gave her better opportunities after this movie, a pity).
Ai Yoshikawa gets in the middle, in both opportunities and results.
So, this is what Gojira means, the tittle?
This is something that I disliked about this movie, this version of Gojira.
Felt just like "an animal", aimless.
A poor creature that was a bit confused and as put down by the humans that couldn't live with it.
There's a scene that suggests it went ashore because it was hit by murrican nuclear tests, but if so he was just a bit annoyed and that was it. Didn't acted or felt like "a force" giving his usual judgment.
And how could this Gojira do this? After all, "they did nothing wrong
Also, it's just my mind playing tricks, or most of this episode was just a dream?
As a christian, suicide is the biggest sin, she would go straight to hell. That's why she asks Kiyama to assistis her.
By having a second to actually end her life she avoid the sin of suicide. John understands this, that's why he volunteers and talks about hell.
She puts her duty and honor above her wishes, that's why she can't kill herself if not allowed by her "master".
Again, as always, this series is very good and at the same time so disappointing!
She falls in love with you.
Onna Musha Logic.
To quote The Master, Mr. Anno Hideaki: "What a woman..."
But seriously, what the fuck was this ending?!
Makes no sense for Mariko to do that, after what had just happened with her!
I also don't understand Ishido.
If he had left Mariko go would be bad for a reason, if he hadn't let her got would be bad for another reason.
Which one he did choose in the end?
BOTH!
He choose the option that gave him TRIPLE the backlash, making him lose the most allies!