Wanted to like this better, but it's "ruined" by something very common in Jdramas. That is, the characters don't thing and do things that should be obvious. How do you explain the total lack of action against Risa's brother. It's absurd, the character is a declared bandit and no one does nothing, anything, to stop ruin. "Please leave us alone", don't they realize that they could easily turn tables against him? In the end when the goes to the press it was so easy to discredit him, they could just tell the press, "but did you also investigated him?". The reporter should had noticed herself how he was trying to see a very specific interpretation of the story and suspect that he was scamming her.
This inaction against the obstacles really hurts the story. And why should always be someone meddling in the central drama?Can't they just concentrate on the core drama? Would be much better.
One reason why I was liking this movie was because it was about a pedophile/lolicon.Fumi may be and still be one…
"Each case is different, but for most true pedophiles, "restraint" is not an effective or realistic means of confronting the condition. It's the equivalent of an alcoholic using "restraint" to stay sober. Rarely works."
Understand that the movie was getting a bit long, but IMO the director "ruined" it on the montage floor with his cuts. If the production company re-releases this movie on a "Director's Cut" with just 4 extra minutes including two essential and fundamental scenes to make the story more clear (still ambiguous enough, you still have to think to figure out) this movie would be perfect.
About that ketchup scene,i thought at first maybe he was also sexually abused by someone thats why he doesn't…
He felt a bit of sexual attraction to her on that moment, "nothing wrong" with that happening if he is a pedo/lolicon, but he has restraint because "his pedophilia" comes from this deformity, right? But yes, this scene should exist alone, it exists in parallel with the ending scene. Fumi actually is not 100% pedo/lolicon, he also feels attraction and desire towards adults, one of the cut scenes that happens before the ketchup scene shows this when he is looking at the woman at his university. That's probably why he left Tani get close to him. I think the ending scene that was cut shows that now Fumi feels safe and ready to open himself to Sarasa. The problem was not that she and others were adults, it was that he was scared they would reject him.
And again, like I commented above, in the end this isn't really a movie about a pedophile/lolicon and this may make some people dislike the movie in the end.
It's an excellent movie, good story and fabulous acting, HOWEVER!!The end may make or brake the movie for you.A…
One reason why I was liking this movie was because it was about a pedophile/lolicon. Fumi may be and still be one by the end, but actually 99% of his behavior and feeling as because of his physical deformity, NOT because he was a pedophile, so the story of the movie changes completely when this is reveled.
It was an interesting history about a pedophile that had restraint and a girl/woman victim of abuse that genuinely cared about each other... until the revelation. I didn't like that. The cut scenes, specially the ending scene that was cut reinforces that, that Fumi is not actually a pedophile/lolicon, he was just very afraid of being rejected by adult woman. But the ketchup scene that is mirrored in the cut ending suggests that now he feels safe and ready to open himself to Sarasa, as an adult.
(if you're wondering, yes, I think that is a real thing that may happen, I remember when I was younger seeing a person like that, I wonder how that person is now...)
THERE WILL BE A SEQUEL! PLEASE MAKE A SEQUEL! It's not fair that we only see Doronjo on her full gorgeous costome on the post credits scene.
I'm impressed, didn't expected that dumb little Doremi would have the smarts to think that plan. She got the biggest victory a "villain" can have against a "hero", the moral victory. And thinking about that, I see paralls with The Batman, and Doronjo is much better than that movie because it doesn't shat on the end with copaganda.
Another movie about "japanese law sucks!". I shouldn't be surprised by the performances saying that "it was better than I expected" because non-actors giving excellent performances in movies is nothing new. Maybe the story being based on the cast helped, so I wish I could see them acting again, specially Lina.
How do you explain the total lack of action against Risa's brother. It's absurd, the character is a declared bandit and no one does nothing, anything, to stop ruin. "Please leave us alone", don't they realize that they could easily turn tables against him? In the end when the goes to the press it was so easy to discredit him, they could just tell the press, "but did you also investigated him?". The reporter should had noticed herself how he was trying to see a very specific interpretation of the story and suspect that he was scamming her.
This inaction against the obstacles really hurts the story.
And why should always be someone meddling in the central drama?Can't they just concentrate on the core drama? Would be much better.
What is the effective and realistic means?
If the production company re-releases this movie on a "Director's Cut" with just 4 extra minutes including two essential and fundamental scenes to make the story more clear (still ambiguous enough, you still have to think to figure out) this movie would be perfect.
But yes, this scene should exist alone, it exists in parallel with the ending scene. Fumi actually is not 100% pedo/lolicon, he also feels attraction and desire towards adults, one of the cut scenes that happens before the ketchup scene shows this when he is looking at the woman at his university. That's probably why he left Tani get close to him. I think the ending scene that was cut shows that now Fumi feels safe and ready to open himself to Sarasa. The problem was not that she and others were adults, it was that he was scared they would reject him.
And again, like I commented above, in the end this isn't really a movie about a pedophile/lolicon and this may make some people dislike the movie in the end.
Fumi may be and still be one by the end, but actually 99% of his behavior and feeling as because of his physical deformity, NOT because he was a pedophile, so the story of the movie changes completely when this is reveled.
It was an interesting history about a pedophile that had restraint and a girl/woman victim of abuse that genuinely cared about each other... until the revelation. I didn't like that.
The cut scenes, specially the ending scene that was cut reinforces that, that Fumi is not actually a pedophile/lolicon, he was just very afraid of being rejected by adult woman. But the ketchup scene that is mirrored in the cut ending suggests that now he feels safe and ready to open himself to Sarasa, as an adult.
(if you're wondering, yes, I think that is a real thing that may happen, I remember when I was younger seeing a person like that, I wonder how that person is now...)
The end may make or brake the movie for you.
A little IMO in the spoiler bellow.
PLEASE MAKE A SEQUEL!
It's not fair that we only see Doronjo on her full gorgeous costome on the post credits scene.
I'm impressed, didn't expected that dumb little Doremi would have the smarts to think that plan. She got the biggest victory a "villain" can have against a "hero", the moral victory.
And thinking about that, I see paralls with The Batman, and Doronjo is much better than that movie because it doesn't shat on the end with copaganda.
I shouldn't be surprised by the performances saying that "it was better than I expected" because non-actors giving excellent performances in movies is nothing new. Maybe the story being based on the cast helped, so I wish I could see them acting again, specially Lina.
The movie being streamed here appears to be a "director's cut". It's a bit longer in the end.
Is she playing a male role here?
No one have or knows how to get this anymore?