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Sakuran (Award Winning)
Anna Tsuchiya , Kippei Shiina , Hiroki Narimiya
Sakuran (Award Winning)

Language : Japanese
Subtitle : Japanese,English,Chinese S T(What is it ?)
Media : DVD All region NTSC Format
Genre : Action
# of Disc : 1 Disc
Released : 2007
Product code : 2300370
$18.99
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  • Official Selection " Berlin International Film Festival 2007

If ever a film could sashay, it would be Sakuran. Helmed by first-time director Ninagawa Mika, Sakuran is a gorgeously luscious period film set in the Edo period courtesan district of Yoshiwara. Ninagawa brings her photographer's eye to the big screen, and the result is a film bursting with vibrant energy, unabashed sexuality, and an exuberant passion for life. Straying from convention, the film features a pop rock soundtrack from Shiina Ringo and an almost over-the-top beauty with its flamboyant kimonos and theatrically vibrant palette. Drawing from Anno Moyoco's original manga, Ninagawa vividly paints the life and times of the courtesan in all its colors - laughter and tears, excitements and banalities, simple dreams and complex emotions. In showing both the reveled and the reviled, the film stays refreshingly free of sweeping statements about prostitution, and instead lets the characters speak for themselves. Tsuchiya Anna of Kamikaze Girls stars as the film's feisty heroine, and she brings to the role a brash attitude and bold sex appeal that cinema sees too little of. Alongside Tsuchiya is an illustrious supporting cast including Kimura Yoshino (Nezu no Ban), Ando Masanobu (Big Bang Love, Juvenile A), Narimiya Hiroki (Last Quarter), Kanno Miho (Dolls), and Shiina Kippei (Shinobi). Brought to the brothels as a child, rebellious Kiyoha (Tsuchiya Anne) stands out even as a young girl, repeatedly talking back, challenging authority, and running away. Her brazen streak stays with her as she grows up to be a sassy straight-talking courtesan with a quick temper and a natural knack for her job. Taking her first patron at the age of 17, she hurls forward without looking back, as she fends off rivalries and rises to the top status of oiran. From the men who come in and out of her life - first love Sojiro..

What other Japanese movie lovers gotta say about the DVD:

Sourc : TwitchFilm.net

  1. Caterpillar 05/11/2007 @ 2:45am

  2. Sounds interesting and certainly looks pretty. If I have the necessary pocket change I’ll pick it up.
  3. csirio 05/11/2007 @ 5:04am

    Schilling is exaggerating, as usual. I saw it at Udine: it’s a very pretty film which becomes quite boring after a while, and the ending is simply bad.

  4. Ardvark 05/11/2007 @ 5:26am

    To be honest I’m not that certain japanese DVD’s are so much better. I was very disappointed with their transfers for “Spirited Away” and especially “Howl’s Moving Castle”.

    Maybe that’s just Ghibli though, but the video quality of the UK R2 release of Howl ‘owns’ the Japanese version by a very wide margin.

  5. crazybee 05/11/2007 @ 6:51pm

    I am definitely buying this. It’s gotten great reviews, looked fantastic in the trailers, and I adore Anna Tsuchiya.

    I gotta say though, Logboy, I can never understand the phrasing of your posts. Your wording is very random. It’s like stream of thought writing. Rambling and incoherent. But thanks for the news and I love you anyway.

  6. JaeJoon 05/11/2007 @ 8:56pm

    I’m glad crazybee mentioned it and not me. Reading this post was like reading the script to the last 15 minutes of The Matrix Reloaded.

    Anyway, yeah, I’ll probably end up buying the EP that Shiina Ringo put out a few years ago just so I can get the 1st song that comes up in the trailer (Gamble I think is the name).

    The film looks nice, but not exactly my cup of tea. The colorful visual scheme looks a bit too obvious in my opinion. I’ll agree though that Japanese R3 DVDs usually are much better (if not twice as expensive).

    The Ghibli releases are another debate entirely.

  7. guizhang 05/11/2007 @ 9:11pm

    gamble is also on her recent collab with saito neko.

    and yeah, i’m really looking forward to see this film.

  8. logboy 05/12/2007 @ 12:23am

    crazybee - that’s me, random collections of thoughts. much more preferable to trying to hone some kind of barrier between writer and reader… though i suspect if randomness takes over a little too much, that happens anyway.

  9. crazybee 05/12/2007 @ 2:15pm

    I don’t typically have too much trouble reading your stuff, but this one was downright cryptic. I was waiting for Tom Hanks and his faux-mullet to jump in and tell me what it all meant! I kid, I kid.

  10. Don Brown 05/13/2007 @ 9:21pm

    Ardvark,

    Ghibli’s domestic DVD release of “Spirited Away” was a widely-publicised travesty that resulted in some customers forming like Voltron to sue the DVD company. I can’t say anything about their “Howl” DVD as being let down once in the cinema was enough for me, but Ghibli’s releases are usually top-notch quality and almost worth paying the exorbitant but standard retail price for. Almost.

    To all you Tsuchiya Anna fans out there who are thinking of picking this up: the special features for the 2-disc set are longer than the film itself - 150 mins vs. 111 for the flick. There’s footage from the Berlin and Hong Kong film fests, a British TV interview with director Ninagawa and a special show from German telly, plus a copious amount of other guff… me, I prefer women with real eyebrows.

 






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