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Absolutely the worst movie.

Absolutely Fantastic

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Are you kidding me?????????People praising this film are definitely pretentious reviews. I really don't care if it's by a well known Iranian director; positive reviews seem to show bias towards that.I can tolerate slow films, but this really takes it to a whole new level. Just pointless and mundane dialogue. Absolutely no story at all and the ending is the most cheapest, laughable, abrupt ending ever. It's like all that time wasted being tortured watching this film, the ending is like being knocked out right in the face and then being spit on and laughed at. It's that awful. Nothing really happens in this film and 2 hours you are wasting time watching them walk from one side of the room to the other and come back, pick up the phone, or just driving or having pointless small talk - hell even the main character suddenly falls asleep during the film when he's driving! It's like he suddenly mimicked how the audience felt about the film. To think the movie couldn't get worse, towards the end we have to listen to this creepy crazy old lady looking out the window ramble on and on - basically the whole film involves really annoying scenes like that with pointless ramblings - and the ending... it's like the director/writer was like "ah, I can't think of anything to write... I'll just end the film here." I love Japan but this is not a real film. It's an absolute waste of your time. Poor writing, acting, cinematography... Seriously, watching paint dry is more exciting than this film. This film makes Sophia Coppola's "Lost In Translation" seem like a fast-paced action movie masterpiece. Fast forward button on your remote will become your new best friend when watching this film. (You'll also be eager to go for the Stop/Eject button too, but I actually sat through this torturous film)

The great Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami made "Like Someone In Love" in Japan but it could have been set anywhere for this is a film that knows no boundaries or borders. As you would expect from Kiarostami it's brilliantly written and directed and beautifully played, particularly by Tadashi Okuno as an old professor whose loneliness draws him to a young student supplementing her income by working as an escort. He's not looking for sex, just conversation and company and when, the next day, they run into her jealous boyfriend the old man allows himself to be mistaken for her grandfather ... and then the boy finds out the truth.It's a film of mostly small dramas and when violence finally erupts Kiarostami keeps it off screen. For the most part these people simply talk, about their problems, their relationships and life itself and Kiarostami films sequences in 'real time' and with a fixed camera just as he does in his Iranian films. I found it mesmerizing, at times funny, sometimes moving and in the end, really rather shocking. It makes for essential viewing.

Akiko works as a call girl in Tokyo; we first meet her in a bar where she is on the phone to her boyfriend. He clearly doesn't trust her as he keeps asking her questions and refuses to believe that she is just with a girlfriend. When she hangs up she returns to talking with a man; he has arranged for her to spend the night with somebody 'important'… she isn't keen to go as she wants to see her grandmother and she has an exam in the morning. Eventually she gives in to the pressure and is driven to the man's house. It turns out he is an elderly retired professor who is more interested in having dinner with her than sleeping with her. The next morning he drives her to university and sees her boyfriend confront her, the boyfriend then approaches the car and, assuming the old man is Akiko's grandfather gets in and talks about his desire to marry Akiko. An awkward situation is averted but later when he learns the old man isn't Akiko's grandfather he gets violent.If you want films to be fast paced them this isn't going to be for you; to say the pace is gentle is an understatement! Director Abbas Kiarostami shows things that don't normally appear in films; the elderly man doses off at traffic lights; this is not a hint that he will cause an accident just an old man feeling tired. Similarly the camera doesn't always show the people we expect it to; we don't see the old man's neighbour as she asks him to move his car and when there is some action it is off screen. Some may find these techniques boring or even pretentious but I found it interesting in the way that it drew me into the story; these felt like real people who one just happens to be watching for a short while. The ending will be a problem for some viewers as well; it certainly came as a shock to me; just as it looks as if something is going to happen it ends so don't expect any resolution. The cast perform well; Rin Takanashi brings a vulnerability to the role of Akiko, Tadashi Okuno is good as Takashi, the old man, and Ryo Kase somehow manages to be threatening but not totally unsympathetic as Akiko's boyfriend Noriaki. Overall I'd recommend this to anybody looking for something a little different.These comments are based on watching the film in Japanese with English subtitles.

This is sooooo extremely boring movie that I want swear!!! Scenes are pathetic. Girl is looking by the car window. She's looking, looking, looooking... and looking. Granddad is driving, driving, driving and ooo he reached destination after 4 minutes of drive without single world. Other one. Granddad is going out, he is opening the door, we see he is on third floor, going down, he is on on second floor now, down further, first floor and what next? Yuppie he's out! Such a incredible sophisticated scene. There is more such a pearls in this masterpiece. Waste of time! Waste of budget!!! Waste of time! Waste of budget!!! Waste of time! Waste of budget!!!