It was perhaps a good film, but its style was a bit confusing. Individual scenes were suddenly cut off for no apparent reason, with the missing part shown much later in flash-back.
And unless you have a lot of friends or acquaintances that are oriental you might have trouble keeping track of the characters. (The old "they all look alike" cliché.)
For an OWM (old white male) like me, it especially didn't help that not only did most of the characters look very similar, they all wore identical clothing. The scenes that were fast paced didn't give me enough time to figure out who is who.
Just to make it worse, each character had two different names (their real name and their school name), and to top it off, one of the names was used for two different characters.
Being able to recognize the difference between Korean and Japanese might help too.
I suspect I'd like it better if I watched it a second time.
And unless you have a lot of friends or acquaintances that are oriental you might have trouble keeping track of the characters. (The old "they all look alike" cliché.)
For an OWM (old white male) like me, it especially didn't help that not only did most of the characters look very similar, they all wore identical clothing. The scenes that were fast paced didn't give me enough time to figure out who is who.
Just to make it worse, each character had two different names (their real name and their school name), and to top it off, one of the names was used for two different characters.
Being able to recognize the difference between Korean and Japanese might help too.
I suspect I'd like it better if I watched it a second time.