- Actors: Tomohiro Okada, Kouichi Imaizumi, Takao Nakano, Christian Storms
- Directors: Imaizumi Koichi
- Format: Dolby, PAL
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: 18
- Studio: Peccadillo Pictures
- DVD Release Date: 31 Jan 2005
- Run Time: 108 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B0002W139S
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Two Japanese boys go on a real-life Manga adventure when they discover what a single night in Shinjuku holds for unwary lovers. It's the night of Gacchan's birthday and boyfriend Takayuki is waiting at home to celebrate. But Gacchan has not only forgotten about his party, he's been out playing around. Furious, Takayuki leaves, threatening not to return until he has indulged in some adultery of his own. The DVD comes with a short film: Angel in the Toilet
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EXTRA FEATURES: Sexually explicit short film, 'Angel in the Toilet'
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Directed and written by Imaizumi Koichi, this 2003 film is only seventy-six minutes long; to make it longer, I think, would lose some of its magic.
The film is given an `18' certificate, apparently because it "contains strong sex". Hardly! But the film does kick off with infidelity. Gacchan is having a session with Kotaro, whilst Gacchan's cute boyfriend Takayuki is home preparing his partner's birthday surprise. Gacchan arrives home, an argument ensues about his infidelity, and so Takayuki storms out into the night city in search of ... well, I'm not sure he knows what he's looking for. Gacchan - and Kotaro - follow on his heels.
And here is where it gets interesting, for what happens is for real - and yet not for real. It all starts in so obvious a manner: Takayuki hangs around town, visits a cottage and a gay bar, but then ... well, things become a little surreal. (Is there a Manga influence here?)
The film is competently shot and acted but comes over as a student piece. (The credits give thanks to Tokyo Film School.) There are some awkwardly presented moments, and, in places, lighting, focus, sound, and pacing could be better. But these are minor quibbles and do not detract from the fun of the movie.
I like it for its charm, its campness, and its comic cheap professionalism, for example the fight with the drag queen and her two cohorts, or the seer in the wheelchair playing her triangle, put out of action by Kotaro's flying shoe. Occasionally the protagonists address the camera directly. The students must have had a lot of fun making the film. I was never bored watching it.
There is an extra short, a thirty-two minute film called `Angel in the Toilet'; every cottage should have one! Described as "sexually explicit" (a subjective view), it features a snake, a snail, and a frog ... oh, and a young man loitering with intent. There is no dialogue.
The film is given an `18' certificate, apparently because it "contains strong sex". Hardly! But the film does kick off with infidelity. Gacchan is having a session with Kotaro, whilst Gacchan's cute boyfriend Takayuki is home preparing his partner's birthday surprise. Gacchan arrives home, an argument ensues about his infidelity, and so Takayuki storms out into the night city in search of ... well, I'm not sure he knows what he's looking for. Gacchan - and Kotaro - follow on his heels.
And here is where it gets interesting, for what happens is for real - and yet not for real. It all starts in so obvious a manner: Takayuki hangs around town, visits a cottage and a gay bar, but then ... well, things become a little surreal. (Is there a Manga influence here?)
The film is competently shot and acted but comes over as a student piece. (The credits give thanks to Tokyo Film School.) There are some awkwardly presented moments, and, in places, lighting, focus, sound, and pacing could be better. But these are minor quibbles and do not detract from the fun of the movie.
I like it for its charm, its campness, and its comic cheap professionalism, for example the fight with the drag queen and her two cohorts, or the seer in the wheelchair playing her triangle, put out of action by Kotaro's flying shoe. Occasionally the protagonists address the camera directly. The students must have had a lot of fun making the film. I was never bored watching it.
There is an extra short, a thirty-two minute film called `Angel in the Toilet'; every cottage should have one! Described as "sexually explicit" (a subjective view), it features a snake, a snail, and a frog ... oh, and a young man loitering with intent. There is no dialogue.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
I've watched this twice now, and if you can watch it once, it's worth watching again so you can see bits you might have missed. Having said that, don't get it if you expect well-developed characters, rampant kinky sex, searing emotional intensity and meticulous attention to historical detail (Lust, Caution is highly recommended in that case). The sound quality is a bit flaky on occasion, but as I can't speak Japanese it doesn't really matter. The key is to treat it as a bit of fun, it's rather like a high-end student film. I'm not familiar with Manga style, but the characters are deliberately quite two-dimensional, sometimes they speak directly to the camera, and there are random characters like the old fortune-telling duck in a wheelchair. The lead character has more than a passing resemblance to Ben Fogle as he gurns his way through the story, and I found it interesting to get an incidental glimpse of life in a big city in Japan as the tale unfolds. The first time I watched it, I didn't know what to expect which made it all the more fun. Treat it all as if it were a light-hearted gay comic book adventure and you shouldn't be disappointed. The additional feature, The Angel in the Toilet took a bit more thinking about as it's more 'arty', filmed in a derelict public bog; I think it is about some bloke reminiscing about some other special bloke he once met in a lav as he hooks up with many others, but I am prepared to be enlightened otherwise; the sex content is more explicit in this film, but you can still see more nudity in mainstream late night sex 'infotainment' shows, so don't get it for titillation, you'll be disappointed. A clockwork snail and a cuddly snake make periodic appearances - is it a Japanese thing, or just a director's whim, who knows...?! He appears to find some peace at the end, so it's a happy, albeit enigmatic ending...I think.
Nicholas Caseley's 4-star review gives all the reasons for my liking this film too. It has a certain surreal quality as one lover trails around the city encountering not-quite-real situations, with his lover not so far behind. Will they make up? That's the joy of the film.
The extra of the Angel in the Toilet is also a delight. A ghost waiting to be liberated. And is he?
This film shows that going for foreign films pays off. Neither would work if set in England, in my opinion.
The extra of the Angel in the Toilet is also a delight. A ghost waiting to be liberated. And is he?
This film shows that going for foreign films pays off. Neither would work if set in England, in my opinion.
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