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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: Japanese ( Dolby Surround ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN, SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Funuke, Show Some Love, You Losers! is the story of a countryside family struggle. The movie begins with both parents dying in a car accident. The elder sister (Eriko Sato) comes back home from Tokyo because they are no longer able to send her money for acting school. The other two members of the family are the little sister (Aimi Satsukawa), an asthma-stricken aspiring manga writer and older brother (Masatoshi Nagase), who abuses his wife (Hiromi Nagasaku). Now that the frustrated elder sister has come back (and eager to leave again), tension within the family hits an all-time-high. Every member of the family has a dark secret and they lead to one event after another... ...Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers! ( Funuke domo, kanashimi no ai wo misero )
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
This film revolves around a failed actress who goes back home to the countryside after not making it in Tokyo. She moves back into the family home which consists of her sister, an aspiring Manga comics writer, who is around 18 and asthmatic and the step-father and his wife. The actress blames her sister for her failure as an actress and spends most for the film taking it out on her,. We find out in the film her sister wrote a Manga comic about her sister and it was published, hense the reason for her sisters hate for her. Unfortunately the sister is rather apologetic as her sister abuses her verbally and physically. You want the Manga writer to stand up for herself as she is abused, but we see her beeing rather meek and apologetic as though it is all HER fault when it isn't in the slightest. The husband is also very cold emotionally to his wife and treats her badly and is somewhat abusive to her and again she needs to stand up for herself but is again very apologetic.
Without giving too much away the sister starts to correspond with a film "director" and he wants her to write to him regularly to talk about her family and what she thinks of them ect
I wont give away the ending but the actress gets a massive come-uppance and it is an eye opener ending that you WILL NOT SEE COMING. Japanese film tend to be multi-layered stories ultimately deeply satisfying and can be emotional and will stay in the memory for a long time. Highly recommended
Without giving too much away the sister starts to correspond with a film "director" and he wants her to write to him regularly to talk about her family and what she thinks of them ect
I wont give away the ending but the actress gets a massive come-uppance and it is an eye opener ending that you WILL NOT SEE COMING. Japanese film tend to be multi-layered stories ultimately deeply satisfying and can be emotional and will stay in the memory for a long time. Highly recommended
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
I thought "Funuke" would be a light-hearted comedy with a quirky and lovable female lead.
Boy, I was wrong. You are in for a surprise, dont let the cover dismiss you, this film holds the dark facade of the hidden and shameful secrets of a Japanese family.
Funuke is an aspiring actress, she is a material girl, her sister Kyomi is a parallel opposite. Funuke is a complex character, she will do anything and everything to get what she wants. I mean everything. Much to her dismay her allowance to live in Tokyo is gone when her parents are involved in a car accident. This calls Funuke back to her family house in the countryside to attend her parents funeral and also to hopefully change her brother Shinji's decision as he is now head of the household.
This means chaos for the remaining Wago family, Funuke while cute in appearance is a hell-raiser. She is a bully, seductress, cruel and in many ways is considered the villian of the story. She also holds a grudge against her sister Kyomi and treats her with hatred as Kyomi's manga is based on her family's dark secrets which revolves around Funuke's shenanigans, which gets published by accident. This unfortunately gets recognised as a thinly veiled retelling of the events in the household bringing shame onto the family. Kyomi, is reserved and polite but unforgiven about her manga, she suffers the full-brunt of Funuke's selfish ways.
All the characters revolve around Funuke, they all have a purpose, to reveal something bad or distorted about Funuke. Yes this means the supporting characters could be seen as charicatures, but its not really their story to tell, and the supporting characters exist as a means of communcation to the audience of what Funuke is like through their interactions.
Another note, is the film's cinematography. The scenery outside the house is bright and cheerful, in contrast the interior of the house and the village in general appears to be dull, dusty, cluttered and run-down. It serves as a very direct way of how Funuke perceived her childhood, the dark secrets of her past and her reasons of moving to Tokyo. I also found the film, to have abit of a cheeky dark comedy to it, such as Machiko's name meaning foruntate one when nothing seems to go right for her including her relationship with her husband Shinji. The very exagerated scenes and awkard parts in the films are funny and yes there is a fart joke in the film! I loved how the film worked, there would be a stressful scene then some comedy, it helped to pace the film between rises in tension and lows. Yes I think the film probably could have been abit shorter, it runs for 113 mins approx.
This film surprised me in the right ways, it's definetly unique and quirky in its own right. I didn't see the ending coming and I really enjoyed this film. 5/5!
Boy, I was wrong. You are in for a surprise, dont let the cover dismiss you, this film holds the dark facade of the hidden and shameful secrets of a Japanese family.
Funuke is an aspiring actress, she is a material girl, her sister Kyomi is a parallel opposite. Funuke is a complex character, she will do anything and everything to get what she wants. I mean everything. Much to her dismay her allowance to live in Tokyo is gone when her parents are involved in a car accident. This calls Funuke back to her family house in the countryside to attend her parents funeral and also to hopefully change her brother Shinji's decision as he is now head of the household.
This means chaos for the remaining Wago family, Funuke while cute in appearance is a hell-raiser. She is a bully, seductress, cruel and in many ways is considered the villian of the story. She also holds a grudge against her sister Kyomi and treats her with hatred as Kyomi's manga is based on her family's dark secrets which revolves around Funuke's shenanigans, which gets published by accident. This unfortunately gets recognised as a thinly veiled retelling of the events in the household bringing shame onto the family. Kyomi, is reserved and polite but unforgiven about her manga, she suffers the full-brunt of Funuke's selfish ways.
All the characters revolve around Funuke, they all have a purpose, to reveal something bad or distorted about Funuke. Yes this means the supporting characters could be seen as charicatures, but its not really their story to tell, and the supporting characters exist as a means of communcation to the audience of what Funuke is like through their interactions.
Another note, is the film's cinematography. The scenery outside the house is bright and cheerful, in contrast the interior of the house and the village in general appears to be dull, dusty, cluttered and run-down. It serves as a very direct way of how Funuke perceived her childhood, the dark secrets of her past and her reasons of moving to Tokyo. I also found the film, to have abit of a cheeky dark comedy to it, such as Machiko's name meaning foruntate one when nothing seems to go right for her including her relationship with her husband Shinji. The very exagerated scenes and awkard parts in the films are funny and yes there is a fart joke in the film! I loved how the film worked, there would be a stressful scene then some comedy, it helped to pace the film between rises in tension and lows. Yes I think the film probably could have been abit shorter, it runs for 113 mins approx.
This film surprised me in the right ways, it's definetly unique and quirky in its own right. I didn't see the ending coming and I really enjoyed this film. 5/5!
12 of 15 people found the following review helpful
"Funuke, Show Some Love, You Losers" explores the reverberations that one particularly polluted family member can enact upon their siblings and parents. Returning home from Tokyo for her parents' funeral, failed yet hopelessly aspiring actress Sumika Wago (played by Eriko Sato) resurrects her tawdry family tensions with her older brother and younger sister. Sato does a particularly good job portraying the spoilt, manipulative, and menacing Sumika and it is her performance that gives the film much of its merit. Particularly enjoyable and humorous is Sumika's struggle to come to terms with her newfound rural surroundings and being returned to her home roots. Director Daihachi Yoshida uses some great shots to capture the unique atmosphere of rural Japan, and even add an absurdity to Sumika's hatred of it.
As the film progresses the darker history of the family is revealed and this is surprisingly where the film loses much of its appeal. Though the dark family themes involved and the revelationary story telling are highly reminiscent of excellent Danish film Festen (a must watch if you enjoyed "Funuke" incidentally), it lacks a lot of that feature's subtelty and complexity. Everything is made very clear and spoken out, little is left to the imagination. Much of the supporting cast to "Funuke" are further presented as charicatures with few redeeming features. Ok, so the translated title suggests that might be the case, but a cast of utter losers is hard to really relate to or care about. For example Michiko, the brother's wife and the character with whom we might best sympathise at being tied to this ghastly family, is presented as such a pathetic moron it's hard to really care when she's getting trodden on by just about everyone.
Defintitely worth a watch and will no doubt appeal to those for whom a few dark themese scattered here and there are enough to garner enthusiasm or shock. For this reviewer, the characters (bar Sumika perhaps) just weren't quite believable enough in their interactions and the film lacked the charm and humour that many other "dark comedies" garner from a better rounded cast of characters.
As the film progresses the darker history of the family is revealed and this is surprisingly where the film loses much of its appeal. Though the dark family themes involved and the revelationary story telling are highly reminiscent of excellent Danish film Festen (a must watch if you enjoyed "Funuke" incidentally), it lacks a lot of that feature's subtelty and complexity. Everything is made very clear and spoken out, little is left to the imagination. Much of the supporting cast to "Funuke" are further presented as charicatures with few redeeming features. Ok, so the translated title suggests that might be the case, but a cast of utter losers is hard to really relate to or care about. For example Michiko, the brother's wife and the character with whom we might best sympathise at being tied to this ghastly family, is presented as such a pathetic moron it's hard to really care when she's getting trodden on by just about everyone.
Defintitely worth a watch and will no doubt appeal to those for whom a few dark themese scattered here and there are enough to garner enthusiasm or shock. For this reviewer, the characters (bar Sumika perhaps) just weren't quite believable enough in their interactions and the film lacked the charm and humour that many other "dark comedies" garner from a better rounded cast of characters.
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