Taka (Yota Kawase) is a lovely man, looking after his elderly, demented uncle in a rural region and spending his free time playing his bongos and whistling sentimental tunes. When his uncle dies, his cousin grudgingly allows him to remain in the large family home and even offers him a job, working at his cousin's local fishing pond. Taka is happy, and life is good, until a couple from Tokyo move with their young daughter to the village, with a dream of creating a teashop complete with their organic, natural and absolutely delicious food offerings. But they need a place in which to open their shop, and the beautiful old home where Taka lives seems the perfect place indeed.... I don't want to say too much about this film, except to note that what seems for much of the movie to be a quiet slice-of-life story becomes, later on, something very, very different. I like films that mix up various genres because they almost by definition cannot be formulaic, and "Being Natural" is a terrific example of this. The first film my husband and I have seen at FantAsia 2018, we're off to a great start!
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Terrible, one of the worst movies I've watched
MovieIQTest3 April 2022
At first, I thought this would be a great movie, because at the very beginning, the leading character sat on the porch, with bongos tapping and whistling under the starry night, and in the very beginning, the beautiful field, the nice song...and then, the movie gradually evolved into a three-stooges stupid farce. A moronic and pretentious couple with teenage daughter. Their exaggerated bad acting further deteriorates it into a quite painful and unbearable watch. The sole viewer who gave this movie a 7/10 seemed to have a different view of angle, thinking it carried a more profound message. Well, that's deep, very deep. But sorry, I just didn't grasp anything meaningful philosophy from this badly scripted, badly acted crappy movie. I just couldn't finish it, alisonc-1 san.
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