Based on Koshiba Tetsuya’s yet another “look-at-the-busty-slim-teenage-girls-in tight-shirts-and-short-skirts” popular manga comic series, Miike Takashi’s TV movie in 2 parts “Yuya of Yokohama: Tennen Shojo Man Next” is a typical child of the 1990’s with lots of cheese topping for teenagers drawn to romanticised vampire flics. It’s a compressed vampire boy-meets-girl-and-changes-forever narrative, usually condemned to countless televised seasons of series called something like “The Bite of Love” or turned into a franchise as terrifying as “The Twilight Saga”. Luckily enough, it’s a Takashi Miike film, and although half-heartedly directed, “Man, A Natural Girl” contains typical elements of his films as we know and cherish them. One of them is the twisted sense of humor, dry and hilarious, sprinkled all over the story-line like a fine layer of sugar powder. The scenes in which a gang of vampire girls cover their ears in horror when the music changes from...
- 8/8/2019
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
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Winner of the Best Horror Feature Film and Best Actress (Megumi Hatachiya) at the 2016 Tabloid Witch Award Winners, “Dark Side of the Light” is based on an actual murder that took place in 1996, in Shibuya, Tokyo.
The film starts with Takumi Toyonaga visiting his ex-girlfriend, Emi Kinoshita, to inform her that her older sister, Tomomi, has disappeared after murdering her husband, Kohei Tanaka. The story then starts moving in a flashback, as Takumi explains the relationship of Tomomi and her husband, Kohei, who is also Takumi’s best friend, and his involvement in the case.
“Dark Side of the Light” screened at Japan Filmfest Hamburg
Through his narration, which is presented in acts, a terrible story is revealed, that Emi, and everybody who knew the couple, had no clue about. Tomomi and Kohei met at a singles’ party, and immediately became a couple.
Winner of the Best Horror Feature Film and Best Actress (Megumi Hatachiya) at the 2016 Tabloid Witch Award Winners, “Dark Side of the Light” is based on an actual murder that took place in 1996, in Shibuya, Tokyo.
The film starts with Takumi Toyonaga visiting his ex-girlfriend, Emi Kinoshita, to inform her that her older sister, Tomomi, has disappeared after murdering her husband, Kohei Tanaka. The story then starts moving in a flashback, as Takumi explains the relationship of Tomomi and her husband, Kohei, who is also Takumi’s best friend, and his involvement in the case.
“Dark Side of the Light” screened at Japan Filmfest Hamburg
Through his narration, which is presented in acts, a terrible story is revealed, that Emi, and everybody who knew the couple, had no clue about. Tomomi and Kohei met at a singles’ party, and immediately became a couple.
- 5/10/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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