A Scene At The Sea (product link) Drama / Romance Perfect movie for a rainy Sunday afternoon. Takeshi Kitano finds beauty within everyday situations without having to resort to fake lighting, hip editing or fancy colour filters. There's not even a story in common sense of cinema; watching "A Scene at the Sea" feels a bit like having a postcard scenery framed to your wall and, over the course of the year, you keep looking at it at different times of day. It's a slow, quiet and naturally heartwarming experience, and in the end also increasingly thoughtful and meditative. Take your time, keep disruptive everyday thoughts at rest, and allow your mind to dive into that atmosphere of pureness.
Finally an original ghost story from Japan! Very different from common fare, "Kagen no Tsuki" (original title) takes a thoroughly different approach to the subject matter and delivers an atmospheric mystery-drama with hints of sad romance in between: an abandoned house, haunted by the lost spirit of a dead girl burdened with memories which are not hers. Also if you're eager to see how Chiaki Kuriyama does in a role beyond her usual psycho-bitch image, "Last Quarter" is the movie to get, for she does really great. Meticulous cinematography makes for some beautiful, dreamy and mangesque imagery, nothing scary around here. Not all's perfect, though, sporadically awkward teen-performances from an inferior sidecast have to be accepted, and the participation of male J-Pop heartthrob Hyde (playing a musician, of course) is clearly for commercial reasons. On the other hand I'm quite a sucker for music, and the piano soundtrack in this movie is indeed something very special: soothing and warm, yet eerily chilly at the same time.
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