I love Ming-liang's directing style here, but not making plot the focal point of the movie doesn't excuse this predictable and quite frankly boring ending.
Whole film is constructed around keeping the atmosphere tense- restricted and often awkward dialogues, elongated scenes, risk taking as an inherent part of the story. All that while creating a heavy sense of isolation and "big city loneliness".
In the end the culmination is not on par with the build up. Feels like writers took…
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Tokyo Sonata 2008
First 50 minutes are hilarious, very good comedy. But then right before the halfway mark there's a sudden tonal shift and the rest of the movie just doesn't work quite as well. It slows down, either spends too much time on some of it's threads (military stuff had no reason to get so much screen time) or story choices are a bit cliche and at certain point made my interest fizzle out a little.
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Prison School 2015
This is one of those special once in a lifetime experiences that transcends all the barriers of what was previously known to be humanly possible and manages to create it's own genre.
If Akira Hiramoto didn't completely fumble the final arc of the manga and Prison School would go on and continue being adapted into more seasons of the anime, it could have joined Gintama as the holy grail in a comedy anime pantheon.With that said, this 12 episode…
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