HUPOMNEMATA

Seen yesterday at the bifff the new Shinji Aoyama film, first in a series of adventures of private detetive Mike Yokohama. Mike, wearing incredible, beautiful and hilarious clothes in every sequence, is hired by a rich man to bring his daughter back. She’s hiding in a retreat house where people are named by numbers and are looking for who they are and what they really want to do, under the guidance of a woman simply called “the doctor”. The students, when they “graduate” (i.e. when they know what they want to do, be it kill somebody, or commit suicide), have to leave the retreat even if they don’t want to and are frightened by the external world.
Mike, with his butterfly printed shirt, sunglasses and fake leather vest, seems completely alien and hyper active when compared to the otehr zombie like students. On his second day in the retreat, the doctor tells him that there is a tree in the forest that looks just like him. Very funny and strange, playing around an atmosphere that is a bit “film noir”, i still don’t really know what i think of it except that it was an exquisite pleasure from beginning to end. Nice music by Dowser too, and an end credits song by Phew.
Future Mike’s adventures should be directed by KUROSAWA Kiyoshi (Cure, License to Live), ISHI Sogo (Gojoe, Labyrinth of Dreams), YAGUCHI Shinobu (Adrenaline Drive), and OGATA Akira (Boy’s Choir).

Posted by pierre_d on Monday, March 17th, 2003 in: Uncategorized. Both comments and pings are currently closed.