Go opens with an unbelievable shot. Pimples. It opens with the bad skin of the protagonist’s forehead. Once my initial reaction–ick–was over, I started watchingGo wrap itself into a drug-free, fighting-heavy Trainspotting homage. Then it started reminding me of True Romance, if only because the theme sort of sounds like it (the one from Badlands). […]
Entries Tagged as 'Yukisada Isao'
Go (2001, Yukisada Isao)
January 6th, 2006 No Comments
Recommend on MahaloCrying Out Love, in the Center of the World (2004, Yukisada Isao)
December 7th, 2005 No Comments
Boy meets girl, boy woos girl, boy gets girl, girl gets sick.
Crying Out Love has a frame too: boy never gets over it and still hasn’t, twenty years later, when he’s engaged to be married. The engagement actually doesn’t set off the story, some of the silly plot contrivances do, but it doesn’t really matter. […]
