700 Days of Battle: Us vs. the Police ぼくたちと駐在さんの７００日戦争 [movie]

No poodle hair!! Oh my gok, Ichihara!

Set in the late 70’s (glorious clothes I tell ya) this movie is quite simply about some bored teenagers reeking havoc on a policeman. It is very funny (Ichihara at his most juttery – which isn’t even a word. I love his stupid laugh.) it is also really sweet and totally worth watching.

In my total Ichihara-obsession week this was session number two I believe. Watching this alongside trying to finally finish Yankii Bokou which I started two years ago and for some reason never finished.

So Yes, I found this movie to add to my week of Ichihara which so far has included happy chainsaw, 700 days, yankii bokou, saru lock, and box – im so looking forward to hearing him Osaka-ben all over the place (did I just make that a verb?) but I have no subs, so I may not be able to understand it very well – but then I managed to follow Quick and I don’t speak much Korean at all so I’m sure I will be ok with a bit of Osaka-ben. Anyway, that has nothing to do with this movie, what the hell am I doing.

700 days has some of my favourite people

Ichihara  Hayato (yankii bokou, saru lock, rookies)

Sasaki  Kuranosuke (zettai kareshi, orthros, warareu koi)

Tomiura Satoshi (being insanely camp as usual tumbling, hana yori dango)

Waki Tomohiro (gok,cameo in everything else ever)

Kaku Kento (tumbling, samurai highschool)

(and even a short appearance from Takenaka Naoto)

It also stars

Aso Kumiko

Ishino Mako

Toyoya Ellie

Ishida Takuya

Kaji Masaki

And Koyanagi Yu

Bored teenagers prank their local policeman (Sasaki) and things escalate when Mamachari (Ichihara) realises the beautiful woman from the coffee shop is his wife, and then also when Inoue the Great (Kaku) falls for her sister. Running past the speed camera with a brass band trying to trigger the speedometer, planting pornographic manga around the police station, and stealing fireworks, all pretty petty stupid stuff but it makes for a funny movie. And I can’t help but mention Ichihara’s ridiculous laugh again for I love it so. Plus I hadn’t yet seen Tomiura Satoshi in drag and this needed to happen to make everything right with the world.

There isn’t much to say about a movie like this. It really relies mostly on the chemistry between Sasaki and Ichihara, their comic expressions and other inexplicable stuff. It is just a very silly but sweet film with lots of great comedy moments and odd quirky fun. And really terrible clothes.

it is kind of weird to see ichihara not sporting his usual permed boof of a hair adventure though. his hair was surprisingly normal...

Sasaki as always was wonderfully evil and brilliant, i do love it when he has such characters. i always feel a show will be worth watching if i see he is in it. On watching this a second time round with friends and seeing everyone else collapsing with laughter i am assured that it is not merely my bias towards the few actors in the movie i have a soft spot for.



i cant help loving ichihara - he looks like my dog. it makes me want to marry him and cook him cakes and stuff. that didnt sound so weird before i actually said that... 

ok it appears to be time for an almighty tonikaku... just watch the movie its funny. and have tomiura in drag to brighten your day:

~

waraeru koi wa shitakunai 笑える恋はしたくない [series]

Father ChristMassu, I’ve been a good girl this year and I’ve got a list for you. It only has your name on it though.

 

MUST refrain form ranting about Massu in this post as you really don’t want to hear it – I swear I could go on for days with no pausing. I will try my best but I’m making no promises. I have a folder of pictures just entitled *Massu’s worried face* because it is actually the best thing ever – and how much do I sound like a weirdo right now?

This is a mini series of three episodes following four main characters and a fair few others as well. My favourite character is actually the store boss played by Sasaki Kuranosuke (zettai kareshi) so funny. I can’t describe him, he is just brilliant.

I turned to this mini series as my growing Tegomass addiction was becoming too much to bear without dipping in to Gachibaka yet again, but I found it to offer much more loveliness than just Massu’s phenomenal face. Unlike Rescue - his phenomenal face is the only keeping me going with that. That and Nakamaru’s epic expressions and over acting. How I love those two striving to become the super-special-eito-power-rangers. Genius.

Anyway, back to waraeru koi.

The title means don’t want a laughable love, which is adorable in itself. It is set at Christmassu time and just to make me fall over and die of cuteness Massu’s character’s name (hence the christmassu thing) is santa. Good lord. How do I deal with that?

Everyone in this was great and I kind of wish it had been a longer series but there was no need for it. The three episodes were enough to cover the short time frame in which all the characters meet and have their loves entangled in each other’s lives.

Our main character is Suzune (Yamasaki Shizuyo) who is lovely. She works as a lift girl but as she is rather monstrously tall with a deep voice and does not have a standard pretty face, she finds it hard to seek out her true love.

She falls in love easily but honestly, and is quiet fearlessly upfront about her feelings. She has an adorable personality and even though it is a running joke in the program that she is scary looking, she does have a very warm smile and it is obvious from one glance that she is a loving person.

Then we have Tonaka Ippei  (Koumoto Junichi) who is an acquaintance whom she makes a bet with in a bar one night to see who will have a partner by Christmassu.

He runs a cake stall in a Shopping mall that is in danger of closing because of *dunda da duuuuh! Enter stage right* Uozumi the mall manager.

He is truly great. He skips when he walks, especially when he is happy to have been really really mean to someone, and I love him I love him I love him. *to be sung to in Kristen Chenoweth latte boy stylee* (youtube it)

This brings us to Ryouhei (Matsuo Toshinobu) who is the mall manager’s trainee. He is basically training him to be mean. That is pretty much all he is trying to do. This guy is Suzune’s first crush of the program. She says if she has 99 loves then she will get mr 100, so she confesses without a thought as she always does and scares him half to death.

Also failing in his quest to have a partner by Christmassu, Tonaka Ippei is in love with a sweet young girl called Rika (Natsukawa Jun) who also works in the mall and is all kinds of out of his league.

 

We also meet Shirai Yukiko (Sakai Wakana) who appears to be a bossy strict career woman working at a TV station. She gets demoted for getting on everyone’s nerves and while frazzled at her new position she bumps into a delivery boy and snaps at him.

Yup, this one is santa. Santa the delivery boy. Seriously it is as cute as it sounds. Massu rocks that red uniform. Santa has four overbearing older sisters who won’t leave him alone for more than five minutes before ordering him around like a – well, like a younger brother. When he meets Yukiko he swears he would never be able to fall for someone like her but then later he finds her drunk in a bar (the same one the christmassu love-bet pair frequent) and is horrified to find her in his bed in the morning.

That is basically the beginnings of their stories and we watch them interlink and grow into a, probably quite predictable but, sweet and emotionally provoking tale of those searching for love and those finding love by accident.

…And those who get love for christmassu wrapped up in a box with a bow and stuff.

It is not a bad christmassu present, love. I may put it on my list this year.(Or even have a list in the frst place.) But you don’t generally get it just by asking for it. The more you look sometimes the further away from you it feels.

This mini series has that melancholic feel of christmassu and it is kind of sad, but it is very sweet and really funny, and of course includes an ever-needed cameo by baka sato jiro.

What a struggle it is not to just get constant screen shots of Massu for this post. I did try to restrain myself and get all the characters. So now that they are out of the way i guess I can just flood this post with Massu's worried face. right? Or would that be weird? I'm gonna do it anyway.

 

ok i might have gotten a little carried away. never mind ay.

summer time machine blues サマー タイム マシン ブルース [movie]

just go home you bunch of d*ckheads! *bangs head on the wall in frustration*


i watched this film last night and loved it.
it is daft and confusing and features chibi eita and ueno juri.
well cast all round, good story from start to finish, colourful and
pretty mental all the way through.



i have to say i was exhausted from laughing and shouting in frustration
when this finished. the laughing was from great moments like the guy
unexpectedly smacking his head on the locker door, and them all going
uwaa!! in unison every five minutes,



and the shouting in frustration was due to the absolute stupidity of
some characters running around with no sense when they should have just
got on with what they were supposed to be doing instead of
making everything worse and worse!





usually films about time travel are either very sh*t or just too confusing
especially when they try to follow the old physics of time being a straight line
(which causes paradoxical problems and it just makes for mind melting
soul crumbling unfollowable plots...)
but if done well it can be fun to explore that world of paradoxes and the
calamity that can occure when f*cking about with the time line.



they have the balance right with this film. explaining the time line a little
and then being complete retards for the rest of the time. actually even when
they are explaining the time line stuff they are still being cpmplete retards.
its very stupid and infuriating but totally watchable.



its no way as confusing or complicated
as primer or any other such bending the time line type films (which i
usually have to watch 3 or 4 times in a row so i even get half of it)



to sum up:
a mushroom man from the future, an air conditioning unit's broken remote control,
a bunch of usless guys bursting into a dark room like its not gonna spoil everything,
playing baseball paradoxically stretched across two seperate days,
and the origins of kappa suprisingly revealed in a mess of accidental timetravel.



basically the sci fi club (who hate sci fi)
break their air con unit's remote, a time machine randomly appears,
they use it to go back and get the remote before it gets broken,
they start to freak out about paradoxes,
some of them are too busy d*cking about to get the f*cking point,
and i start banging my head on the wall and shouting
*just go back now you idiots!*
all the while the farce becoming more and more stupid.





it all wraps up nicely. the end is great and still very stupid.
it is lighthearted, unless like me you get this wound up by
people d*cking about and potentially ruining the flow of time
when they should be getting a f*cking move on,
and there are some really really funny slapstick moments
i hurt myself laughing so hard

...and should have contained my frustration a little - its a
good job my wall is wood not plaster or there would be a dent.

i think i woke up with a little concussion this morning.