RobertBobert

You missed the point. The idea of ​​the film is that the mother stopped fighting and sacrificed herself to save her child. Thus becoming a guardian spirit who held back the ghost of the dead girl in that house. Japanese culture is very fond of the idea that parents make great sacrifices for their children and therefore children should respect and appreciate their parents by helping them themselves.

It's your typical punchline horror movie, so you have to watch it all to get the point. Plus, yes, the intrigue is quite simple and obvious, but that’s not what the ending is about.

It could have been a great classic techno-thriller, but the fact that the criminal was a complete stranger to her the whole time completely destroys any detective element in the film. Otherwise, a pretty solid thriller film with Hollywood-level production.

He was originally a very cringe dude. But the attempt to make us believe that he was the criminal was ridiculous.

This show is frankly intentional and genuinely silly, but I love the charisma and warmth of all the characters even if Kuwano can be really insufferable at times.

Am I correct in understanding that some of the subtlety of the ending allows them to somehow continue the show again in the future? It seems obvious that he will be with Madoka. But I'm afraid of repeating the retcon of the first season.

Just yesterday I saw him for the first time in the series, and today I found out that he died a year later. I don't even know what to think. Rest in peace.

You can say that this series made me fall in love with doramas, since it was actually my first series of this type at all. Although I initially didn’t even intend to watch it, I simply came across it by chance while reading synopses of various Japanese series.

I was expecting another melodrama and fan service with cute animals, but what I got was a touching Jackie Chan love letter to his career, stuntman profession and youth. The film also very much feels like a goodbye letter, but it doesn't look like Jackie is planning on retiring anytime soon. But who knows?

I understand the references to statistics, but statistics are not a universal measure of creativity. It all depends on the specific IP and showrunners.

Ask on the Kitano fan subreddit, the film became available on physical media in April-May of this year.

This sounds like the most clichéd attempt to justify racism, which is probably familiar to every person from an ethnic minority when they complain about an objective violation of their rights.

"I didn't experience it, so it didn't happen" is a very bad example. I am half Jewish, but it was only as an adult that I learned and realized how strong anti-Semitism was in my country.

Are you seriously trying to blame Trump for the fact that Asians are suffering from the left-liberal radicals of left-wing universities and discrimination in traditionally liberal cities like New York? I'm not trying to deny that he is partly to blame for this, but now even Biden and the Democrats have been promoting China's "blame" for COVID and indulging conspiracy theories about it. They only didn't care when Trump supported it, because everything Trump says is bad by default.

What's more frustrating to me is that in 2024, you can post the most rude and outright racist and even xenophobic comments and still pretend to be seen by others as liberal and progressive. And this is on a site that is dedicated to Asian films and TV series.

Unfortunately, some people think that being born white means half the battle for a happy and successful life, and because of this they believe that all white people are cheaters and they do not need to achieve anything in life. The expected result of culture wars in the media and the Internet, unfortunately.

Unfortunately, such hypocrisy has long been the norm in Western fandom of Asian culture. For example, you can find many people who openly attack Japan and the Japanese as a nation in local culture wars about this or that element of anime or Japanese video games. And these people consider themselves fans of Japanese culture.

Um, does racism in South Korea itself somehow justify racism against Koreans or Asians in general? I don't quite understand your logic.

Putting aside the fact that many people don't know enough to notice the difference, I think it's called the engagement effect. But it's worth wondering why so many people support this POV.

I don't think you can defend one actress' performance by attacking the performance of others. That's not how it works.