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A different way of telling a story

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

And by that I do not mean the main character in this movie who does absurd things to get laid. It's the reviewers here that are completely stupid. Why are they making this a racial thing saying "if you like Japanese culture." Who are these asshats who are so busy feeling pretentious for sitting through a vintage and indie film made in Japan, that they totally missed the quite obvious point? It is a brilliant satire and reading the reviews and seeing how that flew over their heads almost repulses me!? This film is simply about "MEN" who think their cars impress women! How dare these reviewers think that Japanese people aren't human and also don't go through this sort of peer pressure! That this film is simply mocking "Japanese pop culture." I'm confused! This film was made in 1994! Now unless the director literally said "I made this film to mock Japanese pop culture," and you can prove that with a link to a credible source, I don't get why people are saying this!One guy even said this movie mocks Zatoichi! Zatoichi was made almost 10 years after this film so HOW IS THIS FILM MOCKING ZATOICHI?! Shut up you ignorant weaboo!!? He just wants to brag that he has seen Zatoichi so he mentioned it!! And other people who do not know better themselves will find his idiotic review worthy.Now, on to why I love and totally understand this film and do NOT see this as merely a "Japanese movie." One scene shows the main actor conspiring a plan to get sex by having a first class plane ticket. The director shows us his fantasies and how he goes after the ridiculous thing. He says to himself, "I need money. I can rob a bank. I need a gun to rob a bank." And I'm totally in tune with this guy at this point so I tell myself as a joke (the 1st time I have seen the movie): "Well, I guess he's going to have to become a policeman so he can get a gun, so he can rob a bank." And what does this guy do? Well I can't say much but he goes through a ridiculous number of attempts to get a gun! It is hilarious and sometimes he is too stupid even for me but I never blame the movie, I see this as a brutal relentless mockery of the mentality of desperate, insecure men who hide behind their materials to get women. And I loved this movie inside and out.I think this movie needs to be redone and rebooted as an almost exact remake. With famous actors of today in Japan. Modern Japanese movies with attractive Japanese cast has no problem appealing to the modern and young crowd in and out of Japan, the type of people who have to see this movie the most. Stop hiding behind your materials, you look silly. And stop getting yourself into a chain of unnecessary situations to impress other people. This movie for me is a fine balance of wit and silliness while never straying from its purpose. I mean it's not about the silliness of each scene, it's about WHY is he doing it. He messed up a bigtime movie he got a role in JUST so he can be an actor JUST so he can meet groupies JUST so he can get laid. HE'S ridiculous but the MOVIE is spot on with making fun of men like this. This movie is an unsung answer to life's dumbest problems like materialism and getting sex. It shouldn't be looked at as simply Japanese quirkiness. This movie is similar to Britain's "The Inbetweeners." Which is also not about being British. It's about being a desperate teenage boy, simple. And America could never do this properly. It would be all slapstick and no wit and obviously it is another American who made the ignorant racial review about this movie! Ha.

Filmed in Japan in 1994 and released a year later, GETTING ANY? is a silly (and sometimes spicy) series of comic farces about a dim-witted middle-aged fool who is obsessed with the idea of having sex (for the first time in his life most certainly). Chasing after his quest he takes part in many absurd adventures. The "comic" escapades contain all of the grounding and sophistication of a Benny Hill sketch (all that is missing is on-target humor and kazoo music). GETTING ANY? does have frequent female partial nudity, and that's about the only reason to sit through this film. The ghost of Benny Hill is alive and not doing so well in Japan. Don't get GETTING ANY!

First off two questions:1.How well do you know Japanese pop culture? Have you seen Japanese yakuza films? Godzilla? Do you know Zatoichi and Lone Wolf and Cub? How about Ultraman? Have you watched things like Extreme Elimination on Spike (which is a Beat Takeshi TV show)? Do you know about their attitudes towards sex?2.Are you bothered by base humor that goes for the lowest common denominator? Get you get past woman being nothing more than objects to take their clothes off? Do you laugh at poop jokes or for that matter just really dumb jokes?If you know a bit about Japanese culture and can laugh at stupid jokes then this is for you.Starting as one man's quest to get a car so he can have sex in it, this film morphs into a destruction of dozens of Japanese icons. It proves that Western eyes aren't the only ones who find much of Japanese culture silly. If you have a passing awareness of what they are sending up and tearing down this is absolutely hysterical. Granted you won't get everything, but you'll probably smile from start to finish with frequent bursts of laughter.One of the chief reasons this works is that there is intelligence behind the humor. Yes, the hero is a pig, and his attitudes towards women are terrible, but thats the point and much of the pain that he ends up getting he deserves for being the way he is. The jokes about the icons is often dead on, for example the film dismantles Lone Wolf and Cub in a minute and a half so perfectly I doubt that I'll be able to watch the movies with a straight face ever again.If you know Japanese culture and love to laugh see this movie. You may not love it all, but you will laugh.A word of warning- this movie would be rated R if released in the US. Not just for the sex and nudity, but for the scatological humor which cross over into the graphic.For Japanophiles with a low brow sense of humor 8 out of 10. For everyone else 4 out of 10.

This is a truly funny film that crosses all boundaries... despite not having English subtitles I was totally gripped by the insanity of the images on display, and Takeshi Kitano's brilliant deadpan performance. It's incredible how such a simplistic tale of a man stumbling from one bizarre situation to another, with little or no rhyme or reason, can be so laugh-out-loud funny.