Pacchigi! Love & Peace (2007)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Kazuyuki Izutsu

Writers:

Daisuke Habara (written by) &
Kazuyuki Izutsu (written by)

Release Date:

11 October 2007 (South Korea)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

A brother and sister from a Korean family living in Tokyo in 1974. |

Cast

Shunya Isaka
Hidetoshi Nishijima
Yuri Nakamura
Takashi Fujii
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Manabu Hamada
Lasar Ishii
Asuka Kataoka
Morio Kazama
Midoriko Kimura
Yuichi Kimura
Houka Kinoshita
Sayuri Kokushô
Akaji Maro
Kenji Motomiya
Yôichi Nukumizu
Kimio Otsubo	...	Walker #1
Sohee Park	...	Corporal Kanemura
Yutaka Shimizu
Tetsushi Tanaka
Yoji Tanaka
Susumu Terajima
Satomi Tezuka
Kaisei Yamazaki	...	Walker #2
Riku Yamazaki	...	Boy

Directed by
Kazuyuki Izutsu

Writing credits
Daisuke Habara		(written by) &
Kazuyuki Izutsu		(written by)

Produced by
Bong-Ou Lee	....	executive producer

Cinematography by
Hideo Yamamoto

Film Editing by
Nobuko Tomita

Production Companies

• Cine Quanon
• Cinequanon

Distributors

• A-Line (2007) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Cine Quanon (2007) (Japan) (theatrical)

Other Companies

• Chiba Prefecture Film Commission  

Runtime:

127 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

South Korea:15

Company:

Cine Quanon

Movie Connections:

Follows Pacchigi! (2004)

Waste of time

If you have seen the previous film you will likely hate this one as a few of the important characters are mysteriously absent and the actors that play the remaining characters have also changed.

One of the other major detractors is the unnecessary inclusion of flashbacks to WW2 which are irrelevant to the story. The characters and what is going on in the flashbacks is not explained until the end and even then it is only VERY loosely connected to the main story which takes place in the 70s in Japan. Furthermore, the grizzly and VERY graphic nature of the flashbacks does not fit with the comparatively light tone of the rest of the movie.

Lastly the film is marred by a complete lack of explanation/resolution of important plot points such as the son who has a horrible disease. After all the trouble and side-plots that the characters go through to get the money for the kid's treatment, the movie ends without saying ANYTHING about what happens to the kid. There is also a whole side-plot about sailing out to Pusan to exchange some money which is also never explained. The same goes for why one of the main characters was arrested then suddenly released or what is with the woman and girl who visit him in prison???