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It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

A fellow screenwriter recommended this as one of his favorite films, and I rented it through Netflix. It is an absolute charmer! The buildup in the first half is a little slow, but entertaining, and by the end of the film, I had fallen in love with all of these characters.There are moments of pure and fresh delight! This story has a heart and soul - it has many! The only criticism I have is that there are not enough female characters in it. Peco's granny is terrific, but Demon's girlfriend is an annoying stereotype.Peco and Smile - an unforgettable pair. Great friendship movie, and excellent footage of table tennis at its best.I especially love the character of Smile. Great writing!

From the first seen with Peco jumping off the bridge, the engaging soundtrack reels you into to a story about two friends.While we may have see this type of friendship before, the subject matter is....well another matter. After all, to most of us in the US, ping pong is more of a recreational sport. The action is maybe a little too fast, but Ping Pong the movie slows it down and uses CG to create a surreal, manga-like atmosphere.The movie succeeds in combining CG, quick editing and cinematography colors to create a whole new world. But that is just the look of the movie. The two main characters Peco and Smile are opposites, but a friendship emerges when each wants what the other has.Peco wants Simile's god-given ability to play ping pong, and Smile wants the care-free personality of Peco. Along with the drama is some light hearted comedy. Like Peco singing what sounds like "bong, bong, bong" but it is actually "born, born, born". Simile replies 'in the USA'.I personally like movies that develop the characters. In this case, the focus is on the players. You will not see the players parents or where they live. Everything takes place at the gym or "ping pong dojo".I'm surprised, like other have stated, that this movie didn't make it to wide release in the US. Just how "Shall We Dance" peaked our interest in ballroom dancing, "Ping Pong" might have made thousands of us dust off the ping pong table sitting in the corner of the patio.

I was incredibly lucky to get to view this on real film, and loved it. It turned the rather interesting sport of ping pong into a watchable, hyper, twisting story of friendship. I occasionally cried. The cinematography and special effects are splendid -- they bring it in touch with the manga it was based on, without making it inaccessibly over-produced. Also, the casting is fantastic; you can tell that the actors were type-cast, but the movie only seems to benefit from it. As others have mentioned, the soundtrack was excellent -- if Simon & Garfunkel and Japancakes collaborated on Asian pop, I think it would sound a lot like this. My only reservation is on the subbing; though it's better than dubbed would ever be, something is occasionally lost in translation when innocent phrases in Japanese end up translating into English as something connotatively very different.

This movie is a superb adaptation of the flabbergasting manga series by genius Taiyo Matsumoto; the director has truly made a tremendously good work! The actors are well-chosen and very good in their role, the picture is great (a "manga-style" centring, which is very interesting) and the story never gets boring, even if the film is over two hours.I was impressed and have only very few negative comments to make, but I think they only concern things that have been lost in translation. The movie needs a certain knowledge of Japanese society to be fully understood, but is also funny to anyone who does not know much about it. Deliciously delirious!