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Nyaff 2010: Boys On The Run Review
27 June 2010 10:00 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
Boys On the Run will screen at the Walter Reade Theater, Monday, June 28th, and Japan Society on Sunday, July 4th at 12:00 Pm. Go here for details.
I worry that the exuberant Nyaff programming description of Boys On the Run might oversell the kind of comedy the movie contains. Going in I think I was expecting a raucous sex comedy but but this movie is playing a different game. It's more of a laughing quietly or uncomfortably film as opposed to a laugh-out-loud experience, but I think that's actually to the movie's benefit.
Ostensibly a romantic comedy, Boys is about Toshiyuki, a sexually frustrated salesman of vending machine toys who's just hit 29 and has no real prospects. He still lives at home, his company's second-rate, and he's generally boxed himself into a socially awkward hole that would probably have led to random stabbings or suicide (or both) if the »
Nyaff/Japan Cuts Review: Boys on the Run
7 June 2010 6:25 PM, PDT | Nippon Cinema | See recent Nippon Cinema news »
It’s not often that a coming-of-age story revolves around a 29-year-old chronic masturbator who still lives with his mom, but that’s just one example of the many ways Daisuke Miura's Boys on the Run is refreshingly atypical. The film is based on a manga by Kengo Hanazawa which was originally serialized in Shogakukan’s Big Comic Spirits from 2005-2008, and although the adaptation is fairly loyal visually, the overall tone has been changed both in how the characters behave and how the story arc is presented.
When we first meet our hapless hero, Tanishi (Kazunobu Mineta), he’s spending his 29th birthday in a telekura, arranging to meet a woman who turns out to be rather large and extremely disgruntled by his unenthusiastic reaction to her. After surviving a mild beating, he just barely manages to make a run for it down the streets of Ikebukuro.
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Kanikosen: Review
3 May 2010 5:48 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
A new Hiroyuki Tanaka film, rejoice! He used to operate on a pretty regular schedule, sadly his last film dates almost 5 years back. By the time I'd finally caught up with his films, it seemed he quit making them. Kanikosen is a welcome come-back for Tanaka and even though it's a little different from his other output, it turned out to be a very enjoyable film indeed.
Tanaka (better known as Sabu) is without a doubt one of my favorite directors. I consider The Blessing Bell a true masterpiece, with Monday and Postman Blues only further proof of his enormous talent. His films are notoriously hard to find on DVD (English subbed that is, they seem to appreciate Tanaka in Germany a great deal more), which is quite strange considering how well-received his films are on festivals.
With Kanikosen (or The Crab Cannery Ship), Tanaka reunites his love for transportation »
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