Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

mira196 Thsi movie is based on the assassination of President Kennedy. A man who saves an idol from a thug is famous in Sendai, so everyone knows him. However, he is frame of the criminal of assassination. I enjoyed the scenes that compares his reality with his good old days. I was impressed with the scene that the former girlfriend exchanges the battery of the memorable car for the man and the woman to help him. The man remembers the events in the car, so these comparisons highlight that he is in severe situation. I also like the scene that the past friends tries to help him to avoid the police's chase. I can feel their ties because they believe that he does not assassinate up the Prime Minister from their serious and strong-willed expressions. It was also shocked for me that the police hits on the former girlfriend's face. However, I can understand the police's disparate persistence that he would like to capture him. I like this movie because I watched it with tension all the time. I also like the ending since the former girlfriend's daughter stamps on his hand, and the message summarizes the former girlfriend's feeling.

pinokiyo The beginning had a strong opening where I was actually engaged/intrigued, but after the main character makes a "run for it", that is when everything just falls apart, literally (story/pacing), and just becomes a plain, super dragged out, extremely silly and dumb, where things just conveniently happen just for the sake of happening (old man in the hospital... come on now), boring adventure. I can suspend some disbelief, but they end up taking things way too far. It's like the opening starts out really accelerating with a big bang that grabs your interest -- and you'd think it would be more intense after he makes a run for it, but instead the whole film after that just never picks up the pace/just slows way way down/drags and decides to take a huge cartoon world/scenario approach instead. It's very obvious things just unnaturally, forcefully occur just for the sake of the director/writer to connect it with another ridiculous silly plot (Oh, those memories of making out in an abandoned crummy old Corolla... oh! let's bring back that nostalgia and have a wife, who knows absolutely nothing about cars, hook up the battery herself to come to the rescue... Just silly.)The writer of this film clearly is a Beatles fan and believes in the JFK assassination conspiracy/media manipulations. The plot is about the Prime Minister of Japan being assassinated instead, and it ends up being framed on the main character, where he then makes a run for it. The film is a satire of "Lee Harvey Oswald" being framed for JFK, or "Bin Laden" for 9/11, where the media just needs an "image"/scapegoat. The idea is very interesting and I was really engaged and excited at first where it was going to end up, but the rest of the film is just absolute torture and disappointing. Although I cry easily when watching movies, I could not even cry once or find anything touching for this film; I can tell the director tried to throw in all these cheesy touchy moments, but it's so forcefully done, it just makes you roll your eyes and cringe instead. (Seriously... fireworks coming out of manhole covers??? Come on now... That had to be the stupidest thing ever. The wife is some sort of superwoman.) The problem with this film is that it doesn't know whether to be completely serious or end up going so over-the-top ridiculousness turning into an anime world. When people start behaving like they do in anime and really over-the-top silly things start to happen, it actually backfires on the realism/suspense - it really takes the audience out of it. It seriously loses its suspense because you just can't take it seriously anymore. It needs consistency, which this film doesn't have. What made movies like "The Fugitive" suspenseful and exciting is because as over-the-top Hollywood action it may have had, it was still grounded. The ending "twist" is also not that clever/not worth all that time for that pay off. I felt like the movie was more like 3 hours long; it just really felt that dragged on.The positive reviews are giving this movie way too much credit than it really is. Overall, the plot had potential, but the film decided to take a cartoon silly approach with an extremely cheesy flashback "going back home" story.

Seino Aoyagi (Masato Sakai) is mistaken for a murderer and on the run from the cops. At first glance one would think it to be a simple suspense film, but that's not the case. Each character has a deeper motive. Carefree, open-hearted, soft-spoken, each character seems to have some sort of reliance and trust in Aoyagi.A married couple with child get into an elevator, standing alongside a suspicious hooded man. The elevator descends, and a long take follows them as they walk through the department store. Suddenly, the child disappears. In this moment the film has us nervously thinking, "Something bad must have happened."With this powerful moment I'd recommend the film. Every scene in the film feels like a pure cinematic experience: when the company owner says to Aoyagi, "i know You aren't the criminal;" when we cut to the scenery outside the car in motion; when the child of the wanted criminal dies. Even normal scenes were certainly shot with meaning. The cooperation of Sendai City during the filming has a positive effect on the movie's quality. Extras who appear in the film for just a few seconds stand with consideration for their own significance, in turn blessed by a splendid film. As soundly escapist entertainment, it's a shame the film hasn't been screened overseas since its debut in 2010. This kind of amusing film is an example for what Japanese cinema is all about.

hans-j-albertsson I generally concur in the first review, except to add that to most Europeans and possibly all Japanese I know, the tiny girl's mother behaves very rationally: She protects her offspring in the greater sense at any cost.It's a beautifully involved and in part almost indecipherable plot. The serial killer is the nice guy. The big-time gangster is the guy finding the way out. The police are the bad guys, and sometimes the good guys. And the love hotel is a car.Im still uncertain as to which characters survived and which didn't, which ones betrayed the hero, and which ones didn'tI want this one on BluRay with any European language subtitles.. Please please make that happen!