Gunjô: Ai ga shizunda umi no iro (2009)

Director:

Yosuke Nakagawa

Writers:

Ayako Miyagi (based on the novel by)
Yosuke Nakagawa (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

27 June 2009 (Japan)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A drama centered on a young woman who heads to her father's home in Okinawa to try and cope with her boyfriend's death. |

Plot Keywords:

Okinawa Japan | Loss Of Boyfriend | Death Of Boyfriend | Based On Novel

Cast

Masami Nagasawa	...	Ryoko Nakamura
Seiji Fukushi	...	Daisuke Higa
Kuranosuke Sasaki	...	Ryuji Nakamura
Shinji Rachi	...	Kazuya Uehara
Misato Tanaka	...	Yukiko Morishita
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Yoriko Douguchi
Miyuki Hatakeyama
Kiyotaka Imai
Masako Miyachi
Shimba Tsuchiya	...	Young Daisuke

Also Known As:

Cobalt Blue (International: English title)

Runtime:

Japan:119 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS-Stereo | Dolby Digital

Filming Locations:

Okinawa, Japan

Company:

20th Century Fox

If John Tesh were a movie he'd be this movie.

There is Pop and Alternative; there's Blockbuster and Art-house. A third wheel to those pairings might as well be New Age. That's what this film is: new age.

I liked the poster. I like Blue. And I liked the blurb I read somewhere: "a young woman ... is overwhelmed by despair and depression after her fiancé's sudden death. The film follows her touching emotional journey, revealing how her first love came to be and how she copes with the shocking loss." But yikes! This film is bad. It seems more like a shot at giving some J-idols and starlets a chance at big screen time with integrity but just because they don't have to act stupid doesn't mean they act well. Maybe they do act well but the film is so overwrought with phony angst that it's hard to tell. The music, and there is lots of it, is boring new age dreck, and I don't mean just the soundtrack. There are several full on scenes of someone tinkling on the piano for endless minutes of boredom. The direction is of the style that lulls you to sleep by trying to force a pace of real life. In real life hours go by and nothing happens but I don't want to see a movie of that. If I see someone get into their car and drive off down a really long rode at 5 miles per hour it means I can watch them for a very long time but I don't think it makes for whoop dee doo cinéma verité. This is the John Tesh of movies. Stay away.