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A young man named Teru, mentally altered by a childhood injury, runs a laundry and falls for Mizue, a lonely young woman who suffers from kleptomania. One day Mizue left one of her dresses behind in the machine that was stained with blood from her failed suicide attempt. Teru decides to find Mizue in order to return the dress, after having tried to desperately to wash off the blood stain. Soon thereafter Teru's grandmother dies, and her creditors repossess the home in which Teru was living in. The young couple turn to Sally for help. Sally is a caring man who trains pigeons for a living. Then one day, Sally leaves everything he owns to Teru and Mizue. They start a new life. Teru proposes to Mizue, but she refuses him. The more she is assured of Teru's pure heart, the more she feels she doesn't deserve it. Full of inner turmoil, Mizue begins shoplifting again.
| Release : | 2002 |
| Rating : | 7.1 |
| Studio : | |
| Crew : | Art Direction, Director of Photography, |
| Cast : | Yosuke Kubozuka Koyuki Kazue Tsunogae Hana Kino Takashi Naito |
| Genre : | Drama Romance |
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Waste of time
That was an excellent one.
Excellent but underrated film
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
Frankly, there is no significance in the title of this film. The title can be easily renamed to something else, given its weak plot and characters. Additionally, the confused amateur director, Junichi Mori, did not develop the significance of laundry.An intellectually disabled kid, Teru (better known as Sugihara in 'GO'; made in 2001), was tasked to take care of his grandmother's laundry store. To gain some sympathy votes, Teru wears a cute knitted hat permanently attached to his head. He got into some romance issues as expected.Mao points: 1/10
Primitively speaking, there are too many bad movies with happy endings and unfortunately fewer good movies with sad or convincingly well crafted happy endings. Not that either comparison applies to Laundry, it's just that lately I have been pleasantly exposed to some extremely touching films that ended on rather gloomy notes, causing me for a change to crave more heartwarming tales of romance that even through expected sorrow and frustration managed to end benevolently.So I began watching Laundry and the first thing I noticed were the characteristics of the male lead named Teru played by Kubozuka, who for a nice change wasn't suffering from spasms or speech impediment, that we so typically are subjected to in similar drama pieces. Still with such a condition his setbacks aren't exaggerated nor is he stripped down to looking like a helplessly poor individual. Also gone is the sometimes overly dramatized cruel world of physical and verbal abusers, replaced with people who actually share their life stories with Teru and in return listen to his.Next is Mizue, played by Koyuki, who shines with modesty, although her on and off depressing ways hint for deep scars that she might be carrying inside, symbolically mirroring the real scar on Teru's head which caused him to be the way he is. Without giving away too much detail, their interactions are played off with essentially good chemistry. Koyuki is extremely beautiful and radiates subtle emotions with simple expressions and smiles. The story with her younger sister is very affecting in its short time.Ultimately I was pleased with how this film turned out, mainly how it avoided the very noticeable and frustrating digression of the story as seen in the Korean film Windstruck, which not only ruined the flow of the entire film, but radically replaced humor with tragedy. Laundry maintains all those elements harmoniously, letting them naturally float and complement the changes that the two characters go through.Give this film a try and hopefully you'll find it even more touching than I did.
I've seen many Asian movies and of course I agree that a European audience might need some 'training' to full enjoy cinematography from the far east. But this movie is different, though the time-line is typically Japanese, the storyline is simple and linear and the flow of the events doesn't contain real surprises, this movie succeeds in creating a strong affection among the audience and the characters: at the end of this movie, you'll miss them because you'll feel like you know them. Even though very intense and romantic, this movie includes very funny scenes and characters that let you relax and laugh a little. This is my favorite movie and I hope it will make you feel the way I feel every time a watch it.
This is a ove romance of the two protagonists, Mizue and Teru. Mizue can not help shoplifting after being broken up with her BF, which is her trauma. Teru, meanwhile, is innocent and slow at talking because of getting injured in childhood. He has pure soul and eyes and believes Mizue. Teru works for a coin laundry and gives Mizue her clothes she has left. They start getting to know. Even after Mizue leaves Tokyo, Teru goes to see her to hand her what she has left again. They find they need each other as they talk. With Sally, they start growng up doves and set them free as business in the celemony... Sally, a mysterious man with sunglass suddenly leaves them everything he has got and disappears. One day Mizue is caught shoplifting and sentensed to serve in the prison for 1 year, which upsets and confuses Teru.....
