Bright Future (Special Box) (Japan Version - English Subtitles) DVD Region 2
Asano Tadanobu
| Odagiri Joe
| Fuji Tatsuya
| Kurosawa Kiyoshi (Director)
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Japanese cult filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa directs Bright Future, an offbeat, involving motion picture that defies all expectations and delivers something unique and entirely new. Yuji (Joe Odagiri) is a beaten-down twenty-something year-old who works at a washcloth factory with his pal, Mamoru (Tadanobu Asano). But they're not long for the job. Circumstances arise that place Mamoru in jail, and Mamoru's pet jellyfish with Yuji. Enter Mamoru's estranged father Shinichiro (Tatsuya Fuji), who runs a junk shop. Yuji goes to work for Shinichiro. A gang of high school thugs wearing Che Guevara t-shirts inhabit the local arcade. A entire family is nearly murdered. And a ghost appears to surprise Yuji while he's preparing to feed the jellyfish, which escaped into the sewers, and is starting to multiply! And those are only a few of the disturbing, frightening, unusual, and even strangely beautiful things that happen in Bright Future! Kiyoshi Kurosawa imagines a bizarre tapestry of images and events that feels both disconnected and brilliantly realized. An off-the-wall portrait of disaffection and miscommunication in modern Japan, Bright Future ultimately delivers what its title suggests - in more ways than one!
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| Product Title: | Bright Future (Special Box) (Japan Version - English Subtitles) Bright Future (Special Box) (日本版 - 英文字幕) Bright Future (Special Box) (Japan Version - English Subtitles) アカルイミライ 特別版 ２枚組 （スペシャルボックス版） Bright Future (Special Box) (Japan Version - English Subtitles) |
| Artist Name(s): | Asano Tadanobu | Odagiri Joe | Fuji Tatsuya 淺野忠信 | 小田切讓 | 藤龍也 浅野忠信 | 小田切让 | 藤龙也 浅野忠信 | オダギリジョー | 藤竜也 Asano Tadanobu | 오다기리 죠 | Fuji Tatsuya |
| Director: | Kurosawa Kiyoshi 黑澤清 黑泽清 黒沢清 Kurosawa Kiyoshi |
| Release Date: | 2003-06-27 |
| Publisher Product Code: | ZMBZ-1540 |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Country of Origin: | Japan |
| Disc Format(s): | DVD |
| Region Code: | 2 - Japan, Europe, South Africa, Greenland and the Middle East (including Egypt) What is it? |
| Publisher: | Clockworks |
| Shipment Unit: | 1 What is it? |
| YesAsia Catalog No.: | 1002842455 |
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Professional Review of "Bright Future (Special Box) (Japan Version - English Subtitles)"
August 27, 2003
This professional review refers to Bright Future (Normal Edition) (Japan Version - English Subtitles)
This professional review refers to Bright Future (Normal Edition) (Japan Version - English Subtitles)
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Everyone needs a goal in life, and that of Mamoru (played by the very tasty Asano Tadanobu) is to adapt his red medusa jellyfish to fresh water and set it free. A lovely goal, except for the fact that the things are highly poisonous, and he wants to liberate his in the waterways of Tokyo. But despite what the director says, this is not a monster film. There are no giant red jellyfish lurching out of the canals to menace children and tear down buildings, no screaming, car crashes, or evacuations of a city under siege (I feel as though that should be in capitals, with plenty of exclamation marks, but I'm going to resist the temptation). The jellyfish serves largely as a device to connect characters, aside from some lovely shots of the creature in its moodily-lit tank. The personal relations in this film seem, to me at least, fairly realistic. They're messy, uncommunicative, and tend to change in odd ways. And there's never a classic, end-of-film-so-we-can-all-go-home-happy resolution, because life just ain't like that. Overall, this film holds up a subtle mirror to life, allowing us to identify with, and sympathise for, the lonely and dysfunctional main characters, while providing occasional moments of beauty that we don't see in our own lives. Or perhaps we don't see them because we're too busy looking elsewhere. A thoughtful and moving film. 8 red medusa jellyfish out of 10 by Alison Jobling - heroic-cinema.com |
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Anonymous
December 15, 2003
December 15, 2003
Beautifully told
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At first Bright future can seem quite inaccesable to viewers, especially due to the strange fluctuations in plot speed, but if given the right amount of attention this film shows itself to be a delicate, subtle and rather beautiful story of love, loss and devotion. Asano Tadanobu is as always, understated and Odagiri Joe provides a sweet, emotionally unstable balance to his performance. I highly recommend this film to anyone who likes a good tear-jerker. |
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