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[Big Booger]

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I saw this film this weekend in Sannomiya and have to say it was pretty damn good. I haven't watched many Japanese movies in the theater before but it turned out pretty good. I even cried at the end because it was so sad. Hell nearly everyone in the theater was in tears.

I thought this was something more like BIOHAZARD but it turned out to be more like a cross between Outbreak and a soap opera. I enjoyed it and was wondering if any of you had seen it, and if so, what did you think?

[GuyJean]

In the right mood, I think I'd really enjoy it; looks like a tear jerker..

Japan is pretty good at those cheese-dramas. I remember becoming a sniveling mess while watching a J-flick on a flight to Mumbai once. Can't remember the name of the movie, but I think the singer Misia was in it. In the end, she had big concert in the forest where the souls of the dead loved ones were released and became glowing, fluttering lights.. At least that's what I remember.. (The concert part was kind of lame.. Why do I remember that?)

Doesn't sound very impressive, but I think I was shitfaced at a high altitude.

* edit: found it!
Yomigaeri

In the town of Aso a boy returns to his mother after he was missing for 58 years. Inspector Kawada from the welfare ministry is sent to the town to investigate these strange occurence. Soon, more and more dead people are resurrected and return to their loved ones...

The Smap dude was in it! Somebody shoot me..

* edit II: from the comments..

Made me cry, constantly, 23 April 2004
Author: from SW Sydney, Australia
Maybe it was the physical situation I was in, strapped into a bucking 'plane, on my way from my loving family to a family reunion, but this made me cry non-stop. I watched this in total darkness, straining to read the subtitles off a tiny in 'plane "entertainment unit". My brother, sitting next to me, without any of the emotional baggage (his "family" is less "loving" than mine!) kept asking me what was the matter! The twists and turns in the storyline should reward the most demanding mystery fan. The power and passion in the love story should satisfy the most romantic. I watched this three times in four flights, and it gave me everything I needed, every time I watched it. Now I've just got to convince a local company to provide me with a DVD!!

Ha,ha!

* edit III: Remake a Comin'!
Japanese Fantasy 'Yomigaeri' Is Getting a Hollywood Remake

I hope you're sitting down, because I have shocking news. DreamWorks has scoured all of Japan and managed to find a Japanese film with supernatural elements that has NOT already been remade.

I know! I was as surprised as you are. It's called Yomigaeri (Resurrection), and it was a hit in Japan in 2003, picking up nominations for best director, screenplay, actress, and musical score in Japan's film awards. The film is about a village where the dead are returning to life -- not as zombies, but as regular people, inexplicably back from the great beyond, at the same age they were when they left. It's described not as a horror film but as more of an uplifting fantasy. (That makes sense: I think there really aren't any Japanese horror films that haven't already been remade.)

DreamWorks plans to get to work on the remake later this year, according to The Hollywood Reporter, with British screenwriter William Nicholson (Gladiator, Elizabeth: The Golden Age) assigned to the script...

SJ, you can cry in English when Spielberg remakes it..

GJ

[Samurai_Jerk]

If you guys are crying off of cheesy J-melodramas, you need to get the fuck out of Japan forever.

[ghostunit]

Haven't seen it, but from the clips at the metro screens this looks to me than nothing more than the usual Japanese-victim-syndrome emotional garbage.

[wuchan]

If you guys are crying off of cheesy J-melodramas, you need to get the fuck out of Japan forever.

Does this belong in the "you have been in japan too long when...." thread?

[GuyJean]

Oh, stop with the chest thumping..

Everyone knows it takes a real man to cry during a J-movie. A real drunk, drug silly, sleep deprived man.

GJ

[xenomorph42]

Does this belong in the "you have been in japan too long when...." thread?

Hasn't this concept already been attempted before? Time for some serious originality.