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| Product Title: | A Century Of Japanese Cinema - Raffles Hotel (Hong Kong Version) 日本映畫百年史：萊佛士酒店(香港版) 日本映画百年史：莱佛士酒店(香港版) A Century Of Japanese Cinema - Raffles Hotel (Overseas Version) A Century Of Japanese Cinema - Raffles Hotel (Hong Kong Version) |
| Artist Name(s): | Motoki Masahiro | Fujitani Miwako 本木雅弘 | 藤谷美和子 本木雅弘 | 藤谷美和子 本木雅弘 | 藤谷美和子 Motoki Masahiro | Fujitani Miwako |
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| Release Date: | 2003-06-02 |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Subtitles: | English, Traditional Chinese |
| Country of Origin: | Japan |
| Picture Format: | NTSC What is it? |
| Disc Format(s): | DVD |
| Region Code: | 3 - South East Asia (including Hong Kong, S. Korea and Taiwan) What is it? |
| Publisher: | Panorama (HK) |
| Package Weight: | 110 (g) |
| Shipment Unit: | 1 What is it? |
| YesAsia Catalog No.: | 1002834789 |
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導演︰村上龍
Director: Murakami Ryu
在影壇大紅大紫的萌子隻身赴新加坡尋找前度情人岳夫，卻發現聲言到彼邦領略樸儉生活的他，已結婚生子，衣食豐足。緬懷岳夫對她山盟海誓的萌子，頓感自己天真幼稚。她要求岳夫為她拍照，怎料快門一響後，萌子竟然消失得無影無縱…本片是與村上春樹齊名的著名日本異色作家村上龍（作品有《接近無限透明的藍》、《寄物櫃�堛瑰托纂n、《京子》等）第三次把自己的小說改編搬上銀幕、並親執導演筒，仍保留著他的文字底大膽直接的狂暴情色風格。影片女主角藤谷美和子是在八十年代日本影壇紅極一時的女星，一齣《其後》（森田芳光導演）曾傾倒萬千影迷。男主角本木雅弘則嶄露頭角，青春雄美。
Actress Moeko comes to Singapore to look for Kariya, the man she loves. She checks in at Raffles Hotel and finds out that he lives in a big house with his wife and children. In the darkness, Moeko suddenly stands in front of Kariya with a camera in her hands. The shutter’s sound resounds through the room. When it fades away, Moeko has vanished… Raffles Hotel is the third cinematic venture adapted from his own book by the famous writer Murakami Ryu, who debuted with a semi-autobiographical novel, Almost Transparent Blue in1980 and won the Akutagawa Prize, the most authoritative literary prize in Japan. Depicting many graphic acts of sex and violence, the film raised much controversies during its release in Japan.
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"Raffles Hotel" is a baffling film directed by novelist Murakami Ryu. A Japanese actress travels to Singapore in search of a rich man, who apparently had been her former lover. The actress seems to have only a shaky grasp on reality. She pokes around Singapore, always seeming to find him, but what she finds is a mirage. Just when we think she's totally taken leave of her senses, she actually does find the rich man. Now that they are reunited, a strange thing happens -- or does it? She may (or may not) be trying to kill him. Twice she (inadvertently?) shoots arrows that narrowly miss him. Finally, while he is sleeping, she appears to grab an arrow and be heading toward the bedroom with it... But is it really an arrow? You'll have to watch this odd film to find out. This is a deeply flawed movie. It fails to offer any characters about which the viewer cares very much. Its direction is pedestrian. Its story is inexplicable. And don't be misled by YesAsia's description of the movie: It contains no graphic depictions of sex or violence. One more thing -- the film provides English subtitles even when its Asian characters are speaking English, but they are astonishingly mangled subtitles. For example, when the rich man inadvertently gets punched in the stomach, we hear him say in English, "That was some punch," but the subtitles at the bottom of the screen read, "She's my girlfriend." Huh?!? It made me wonder whether the English subtitles were similarly messed up when the characters were speaking Japanese and Chinese. On the plus side, the film makes Singapore look like an interesting place. On the minus side, well, pretty much everything else. Recommended only for diehard Murakami Ryu fans. |
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