It’s a 2003 movie set in Australia starring Toni Collette and Gotaro Tsunashima. While laid up today, I was surfing between it and the USA-Latvia men’s hockey game (hah, hah). Unfortunately, I missed an important plot point in Japanese Story, and want to know what happened. The Web has been irritatingly repsectful of spoiling the film.
If you’ve seen the movie, leave a comment and I’ll email you my question.
Incidentally, it was a pretty enjoyable film, and Collette’s performance is rock solid. As it turns out, she is actually Australian.
UPDATE: Thanks to Randi, the mystery is solved.
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Yup, saw it last week. Been meaning to see it for a while, and finally got around to it.
Some interesting discussions about it on IMDB.com’s forums.
I’ve seen it. What’s your question?
Darren: have you seen “Good Night and Good Luck”. if so, did you enjoy it and would it crack your top 10 movies of the last year?
I saw it at the theatre a couple of years ago and thought it was a great movie.
Thanks everybody. I happened to see Randi’s email first, so I asked him. If he doesn’t know, I try the others.
I actually saw ‘Goodnight and Good Luck’ in 2006, so it makes a brief appearance on this list. Here’s what I said:
“8/10 – Features some excellent performances and has an effective documentary style. I thought it could have done a better job of making the story relevant to today. If the portrayal of Edward R. Murrow is accurate, he had an incredibly dry wit and smoked like a frickin’ chimney. He died of lung cancer at 57.”
If I’d seen it in 2005, it might have snuck into the #10 spot on my top ten list.
Thanks for that Darren. I intend seeing that film. Overall 2005 has being a good year for films. Some really good ones. Certainly, relative to 2004 (“Million dollar baby”, best film? go figure.)