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Wonsuk Chin (writer)
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28 November 1998 (South Korea)
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Keith is a Japanese twenty-something who is followed by Death in various disguises. When he finally faces her...
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Takeshi Kaneshiro | ... | Kenji |
 | Mira Sorvino | ... | Death / Jean |
 | Jeffrey Wright | ... | Balzac Man |
 | Michael Imperioli | ... | Fabrizio |
| Geno Lechner | ... | Pola |
 | Ben Gazzara | ... | John Sage |
 | Sandra Prosper | ... | Black Soldier |
| David Thornton | ... | Lulu |
| Aida Turturro | ... | Fortune Teller 1 & 2 |
| Hye-su Kim | ... | Anouk |
 | Drena De Niro | ... | Waitress |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
 | Ako | ... | Mother |
 | Bill Dawes | ... | Dante |
 | Lauren Fox | ... | Susan |
 | Jamie Harrold | ... | Air France Airport Clerk |
| Rizwan Manji | ... | Young Arab |
 | Bill Sage | ... | White Soldier |
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97 min
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White Soldier:
You okay, madame?
Death: Me?
White Soldier: Something bothering you?
Death: You know why I like young people?
White Soldier: Because they're young?
Death: Because it's such a challenge. There's such a strong will to resist me. I mean some of them pretend I don't even exist for them. So I wait patiently for time to pass. Usually they give in and embrace me.
White Soldier: Unless there's a war or a plague or something.
Death: Exactly. Still I feel heartbroken taking away the young ones. I mean, they make such beautiful plans for their lives you know? They're always asking me, who gets to decide who stays longer and who has to go, but... that's not my business.
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Death: Me?
White Soldier: Something bothering you?
Death: You know why I like young people?
White Soldier: Because they're young?
Death: Because it's such a challenge. There's such a strong will to resist me. I mean some of them pretend I don't even exist for them. So I wait patiently for time to pass. Usually they give in and embrace me.
White Soldier: Unless there's a war or a plague or something.
Death: Exactly. Still I feel heartbroken taking away the young ones. I mean, they make such beautiful plans for their lives you know? They're always asking me, who gets to decide who stays longer and who has to go, but... that's not my business.
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It's about death, this movie, and the struggle to find meaning to one's life, when having only a few hours to do it. Big subjects, indeed, worthy of a great artist - needing one, really. Writer/director Chin doesn't suffice.
The film plays with classic themes, related to this topic - such as the chess game with the reaper in Bergman's 'Seventh Seal'. Bergman's knight loses the game, but wins the lives of those he has learned to hold dear. In this movie, nothing is gained, and so one wonders: is anything at all lost?
There's an interesting atmosphere in the film, sort of an arty New York setting through an immigrant's eyes, but neither that nor anything else is really followed through. What must be meant to have some profound undercurrent, remains just surface - and a quickly sketched surface, at that. It would have been better to make this film a pure comedy.