Soranin

Name: Soranin
Genre: Drama
Released: 2010-04-03
Duration: 2 h 6 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Takao Handa, Arata Iura, Kenta Kiritani

20102010
2h 6m

IMDb RATING

7.0/10

834

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Drama

Meiko and Taneda are a couple graduated from university two years ago. Unhappy with their lives, Meiko quits her job and encourages Taneda to have this band become professional. They ultimat... Read allMeiko and Taneda are a couple graduated from university two years ago. Unhappy with their lives, Meiko quits her job and encourages Taneda to have this band become professional. They ultimately fail when their CDs are rejected by the record companies. Realizing he has to return t... Read allMeiko and Taneda are a couple graduated from university two years ago. Unhappy with their lives, Meiko quits her job and encourages Taneda to have this band become professional. They ultimately fail when their CDs are rejected by the record companies. Realizing he has to return to his menial profession and have failed in his dream, Taneda speeds through a red light on... Read all

IMDb RATING

7.0/10

834

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- Takahiro Miki
- Inio Asano(manga)
- Izumi Takahashi(screenplay)
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Soundtracks
Solanin (Meiko Ver.)
Written by Inio Asano ,Masafumi Gotô
Performed by Aoi Miyazaki

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Dull...

The film slavishly follows the manga, but cannot reproduce its languid graphic atmosphere, instead becoming tiresome. The characters (with the exception of the fat bass player) are also too good-looking for their parts.

By the way, 'solanin' refers to solanine -- the poison found in plants of the nightshade family and, more particularly, in potatoes when they begin to go green and sprout; this is referred to in the film -- although the rather poor English subtitles may not make it clear -- and alludes to the gifts of vegetables sent by Meiko's mother which are allowed to rot. (Japanese is full of words that sound like they could mean one thing but actually mean something else...)

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