Scrap Heaven (2005)

It's about a cop, a sanitation worker and a pharmacist (Kuriyama) and the pharmacist is trying to create a bomb.

Director:

Sang-il Lee

Writer:

Sang-il Lee

Stars:

Ryo Kase, Jô Odagiri, Chiaki Kuriyama

3 wins.

Cast

Credited cast:
Ryo Kase	...	Shingo Kasuya
Jô Odagiri	...	Tetsu Katsurai
Chiaki Kuriyama	...	Saki Fujimura
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jiro Dan	...	Dr. Yoshida Seiichiro
Akira Emoto	...	Detective Yabuta
Sôryû Konno
Ken Mitsuishi	...	Shimada
Yoshiyuki Morishita	...	Nurse Sato
Akira Shoji
Sawa Suzuki	...	Misa Aikawa
Takama Suzuki
Tetsushi Tanaka	...	Bus hijacker
Tatsuo Yamada	...	Tetsu's father

Storyline

The lives of three people intersect on a late bus ride that's hijacked by a suicidal political flunky. Shingo is a miserable young desk cop bucking for homicide division. Tetsu is a restroom cleaning attendant who has a mentally ill father and a penchant for mischief. And Saki is a petulant druggist/chemist who was born without an eye and keeps her disfigurement hidden behind shades. Months after the hijacking, the trio lives re-intertwine as they playfully seek revenge for their unhappy lives, until the games become deadly serious.

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site [Japan]

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

October 2005 (Japan)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Bandai Visual Company, Office Shirous, TV Tokyo

Technical Specs

Runtime:

117 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

User Reviews

Dark, funny, humanistic look at modern life

It makes me sad that there is only one review for this movie and it's an inaccurate vague review that doesn't really address the movie.

Scrap Heaven is a tight, interesting, character driven story about three strangers tossed together when they all end up on a doomed bus ride. But that's just the way they met. The moments of dark comedy effortlessly lead right into moments of poignancy. For me, this hit all the 'indie movie' buttons.

It's not an action flick, it's not a comedy, it's not an outright drama, it's not a romance movie, it's not a buddy movie, it's not a cop drama, it's not an outsider movie but it's a little bit of all of that and really rings true when it all concludes. Overall it feels very human and real. Never overplayed and it never tries too hard. Come with your open mind but not on a day when you can't take a dark movie.