i will say it first off so im clear. i adore hyde.
he has my favourite voice in the world and one day i would LOVE to be able to disect it
i guess i can only dream of making music with him and that beautiful throat of his someday.
big fan of l'arc, vamps and his solo stuff. so yes, basically i watched this because he was in it.
the soundtrack to this film is what makes it beautiful i think.
the movie certainly isnt the most fantastic piece of art ive ever seen
but the score is so perfect that i could happily watch it many times.
it is the kind of film young teenage girls with a tendancy towards gothy things would like.
the scenery is dark and misty,
there seems to be the entire world's supply of dry ice in the grounds around the mansion.
hyde looks lonely and lost wandering around the house smoking and gazing out of windows.
he plays a musician called adam who lost his love any years ago,
he's all leather trousers and long coats
and the scenery is all ghosty, foggy, oo aahh moonlighty kind of spooky
which the japanese always do well.
kuriyama chiaki plays mizuki, a girl who stumbles across the mansion where adam is staying
the tune adam is playing she has known since she was a child.
turns out there is a connection between her and the dead girlfriend
and she becomes tangled in the purgatory of
that house with all the dry ice and
creepy big old iron gates and the
oo spooky type atmosphere.
i love weird quiet little films like this
chiaki is always nice to watch even when her characters arent that great.
but really this film is just an excuse to watch
hyde look sad, frown, smoke and play his guitar in woods full of dry ice.
all of which he does looking lovely and not coughing once.
the theme tune is from hyde's solo album roentgen which ive never been able to pronounce
(god knows how you say it in japanese)
and it is a lovely mournful song
dying to be covered in moss and found underneath the bricks of that mansion.
it fits perfectly with the film.
the soundtrack really is worth trying to get hold of,
it has some beautiful pieces on there and also the other versions of the cape of storms
with just the piano and just the guitar.
it was a little weird for me to realise that
narimiya hiroki (gokusen, hachimitsu to kuroba, orange days)
was in this as id just finished watching him be a complete adorable moron
in yankii-kun to megane-chan.
this film and that program couldnt be any more different in style and content really.
but that is what i love about japanese actors.
they really are so good at what they do you lose all attachment to what they were in previously
and just believe who you are seeing in the present role.
so much so i spend half my time trying to work out what else i know them from
even if its something ive just seen.
i would love hyde to be in more films - maybe gackt could write another story like moonchild
to make into a film as an excuse to hook up with hyde again.... go on it would be a great idea.
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