The Japanese actor Takao Osawa was so moved by Masashi Sada’s popular song “The Lion Standing in The Wind”, that he approached the songwriter with a suggestion of adapting it into a novel. Not only that Sada made Osawa’s wish come true, but he also wrote the movie script based on the novel inspired by the song, thus, one would believe – completing the circle. “The Lion Standing Still” – all forms of it – is based on a true story about Koichiro Shimada (Takao Osawa), a Japanese doctor who in 1987, motivated by a long-time medical missionary in Africa Albert Schweizer, left the university hospital in Nagoya to join the research team of The Institute of Tropical medicine in Kenya, the country where he found his tragic end. It is indeed a story of big importance that deserves to be told, and yet it is difficult to comprehend what made Takashi Miike...
- 8/20/2019
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
Takashi Miike’s ‘Detective Story’ is an entertaining and impressively well-made genre offering, one that expertly blends mystery, comedy and horror.
Raita Kazama is a down to his luck detective. During a night of drinking with his new neighbor, who also carries the name Raita, he receives a visit from a young woman who wants his help. Kazama, who at the time happens to be heavily intoxicated, tells her to come over the next morning. When he wakes up, he discovers that not only the woman has been murdered but that he is also a prime suspect in the case. What follows is a series of bizarre murders that Raita decides to investigate with the help of his neighbor.
The plot may sound a bit overly familiar and that’s probably because it is and the fact that a bloody genre film comments on the violent nature...
Raita Kazama is a down to his luck detective. During a night of drinking with his new neighbor, who also carries the name Raita, he receives a visit from a young woman who wants his help. Kazama, who at the time happens to be heavily intoxicated, tells her to come over the next morning. When he wakes up, he discovers that not only the woman has been murdered but that he is also a prime suspect in the case. What follows is a series of bizarre murders that Raita decides to investigate with the help of his neighbor.
The plot may sound a bit overly familiar and that’s probably because it is and the fact that a bloody genre film comments on the violent nature...
- 1/21/2019
- by Lyberis Dionysopoulos
- AsianMoviePulse
"I think that human beings are under some sort of spell. I want to be released from that."
–Takashi Miike
Since he is frequently places his camera at a distance from the characters—giving them a roomy frame to act in—it comes as no surprise that, in putting together a play, Takashi Miike would use an oversized stage. It's gigantic, about twice as wide and three times as deep as it probably should be. And it's not that the stage has to be large to fit the set: there's only the suggestion of a house on the right, some steps leading to a door that remains closed on the left and a chalky painted stream that runs down the middle.
A large stange is more amorphous. It allows the actors to remain equally in conversation while standing next to each other or while thirty feet apart, and to allow...
–Takashi Miike
Since he is frequently places his camera at a distance from the characters—giving them a roomy frame to act in—it comes as no surprise that, in putting together a play, Takashi Miike would use an oversized stage. It's gigantic, about twice as wide and three times as deep as it probably should be. And it's not that the stage has to be large to fit the set: there's only the suggestion of a house on the right, some steps leading to a door that remains closed on the left and a chalky painted stream that runs down the middle.
A large stange is more amorphous. It allows the actors to remain equally in conversation while standing next to each other or while thirty feet apart, and to allow...
- 6/23/2010
- MUBI
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