Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
Composer: Nobuko Morino
Cast: Masao Kato (he also starred in some western movies playing a Japanese bad boy) and Takao Osawa
You’ve always thought that only Chinese can fly? By the way, Japanese don’t have any problems with gravitation as well: they also can fly when they really want it. They never cared about flying before (except ninjas), but now everything has changed and they’ve shoot a film which I had pleasure to watch yesterday.
The plot is quite simple: two wounded samurai friends who’ve survived just by a miracle knock at the doors of the temple to find shelter there. Two days later the character of Masao Kato wakes up to find himself dressed in new clothes, with neither wounds nor scars on his body, and the mysterious ‘host’ of the place comes out to greet him and says that he was unable to save his friend, then a silent beauty brings food and sake… when the samurai asks the host how he can return the favour, he asks to kill him. Then the real story begins, as the host turns out to be not a good Samaritan, but an evil tang or how he calls himself, the god Aragami…
The movie looks more like a theatrical play: the story unfolds in the same temple hall, there are only three characters, their movements remind dancing, and clothes look like a wild mixture of Galliano and kabuki (mainly clothes of Aragami), Add here hard techno as a soundtrack, cannibalism, invulnerability, alien intellect, and certainly flights both in dreams and reality:) for all its trash nature, I really liked the movie, which hardly ever happens, so you can ‘check’ my taste if you feel like…