Ah, what a vibes movie. Love the wine and dialogue, great music and landscape shots, can always recommend - especially for all the unhinged and neurotic goodness of our two protagonists.
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The Lost King 2022
Really cute little movie about one woman's struggle to be heard and accepted. Go, go, find King Richard III!
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Litchi Hikari Club 2015
Beautiful film about youth, growing up, beauty and how fascism grows in a small group. Based on a Japanese theatre piece of the 1980s, and an eroguro manga in 2005, the movie is going places, and I love it.
The iron steel world, the heavy smog, the dystopian school, the fading nostalgia and evil dawn of adulthood, and somewhere in there, a club that wishes to rise to higher levels. With lychees, robots and god knows what else.Having loved…
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Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler 2009
I am a huge fan of the manga, and I was interested in seeing this adaptation. The anime adaptation is a masterpiece, and I was worried that this film could hold up with the complete 26 episode work.
It could not.
It tried to do some original takes, some were alright, like the different take on Tonegawa, but it mostly falls flat and crashes.
My favourite arc had a good adaptation, but everything else is convoluted and mixed.
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