| JAPANESE CINEMA: THE ESSENTIAL HANDBOOK. by Thomas Weisser and Yuko Mihara
Weisser. Wow! Thomas Weisser has a Japanese wife, what a great guy he must
be! Since this book was co-written with a Japanese person it is extra accurate.
For instance, the heroes of Gonin are undone by a whore who is a "quintessential
bitch who has no loyalty for her boyfriend pimp, and sells his ass (and
everybody's else) for a bag of gold." Thomas Weisser is so special he sees
the super duper special director's cut in which none of that happens! Hmmmm,
evil whore, oh wait, I know, he means the whore girlfriend of one of the
characters who gets killed half an hour into the film after being gang raped.
Uh-oh, she didn't sell out everybody's else ass for a bag of gold, she was
dead. Or how about his description of the end of Ano Natsu, Ichiban Shizuka-na
Umi, "summer has come to an end. With it, his dreams have evaporated too.
The boy must return to the world of trash collecting. And silence." Such
poetic writing, but who says you have to actually see the ending of a movie
to write about it. Its co-written by a Japanese person, thereby extra accurate!!
It also costs $20 and isn't a badly written rip off at all, unlike this
badly written review which is free!!! I'll add more exclamation points!!!!!!!!!!!!
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