Negative Happy Chainsaw Edge ネガティブハッピー・チェーンソーエッヂ [movie]

Stupidest movie title since Turtles Swim Faster Than Expected

Cast:

Seki Megumi - Eri

Ichihara Hayato - Yosuke (poodle hair alert!)

Asari Yosuke – Watanabe

Miura Haruma - Noto

This review might be kind of short as lately I haven’t got as much time as I usually do, this month I want to get a few things blogged but seem to watch stuff so much quicker than I can review them. This movie is by no means worth a short review but to be fair it hardly needs an epic rant either.

I love this movie. There are countless half assed opinions of this film online, most people just didn’t really understand it. I thought the point was clearly outlined from the very beginning with Ichihara’s phenomenal narrator voice (lord the boy can smooth out a piece of dialogue) this film is all about fighting demons. Most likely inner demons. In Eri’s case, dressed up in the form of an immortal chainsaw wielding mentalist from the sky.

Yosuke’s demons seem to be dressed up as his disregard for his own life, maybe not quite as fatal as Eri’s chainsaw wielding dude, but then again maybe so.

We first meet yosuke, being an idiot. Never feeling he could live up to the immortal presence of his dead friend Noto, Yosuke has lost his place and just acts out in a restless attempt to fill a void left open by Noto’s immense personality. He meets Eri one night who is battling her own demon in the form of said chainsaw wielding weirdo from the moon of planet mental. Her demon dude is also caused by grief and she has no choice but to battle him every single night in an attempt to keep her despair at bay.

The two haphazardly join forces and become unlikely friends and there is not much more to it than that. Until stuff goes wrong and, y’know, the rest of the story happens.

Ichihara narrates this movie (NEVER a bad thing to have his lush Shige-twin voice drawl on for ages about nothing. Never gets old.) and obviously plays the main character troubled by the loss of his friend – who I should point out, is played by Miura Haruma AND we get to hear him sing in the movie AND the song is great AND his character is awesome which we see through lots of flash backs AND I know I’m biased but who cares we love Miura any day of the week.

Seki Megumi has huge watery eyes, I swear I’ve never seen her in a happy role but she can do sad and tormented like no-one else so who cares. And should i mention Ichihara's poddle afro...? it kind of speaks for itself. That boy's hair seriously... how... i mean... 

It isn’t meant to really be a big epic film, it is like a small section of the lives of the two main characters from a time when they were both grieving and feeling warped by their instability. Finding out who you are through hardships that happen, how you deal with your troubles, and who you cling to along the way, is the inevitable ebb and flow of life. That is kind of what this movie is about, though it doesn’t profess to be the most serious take on the whole thing. It is more like a wandering absent minded thought, than a meditation on a problem.

Well I’ve run out of time so that will have to do. Hopefully the screen shots help sum up whatever I couldn’t find the words to say. Don’t try to take the movie to seriously and read a whole bunch into it – you won’t get it if you do that. It really isn’t so complicated. It’s just a sweet film. And buy Miura Haruma’s single for this movie. (^_^)

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sunao ni narenakute 素直になれなくて [series]

ok my head hurts now...

the last three episodes of sunao finaly finished. it has taken me so long to get to the end this drama. it was painful from beginning to end- what started off as a general cringe as things went from bad to worse ended in desperate hope that any good could come out of it all.

seki megumi, who plays peach, i hadnt seen before this but have seen since. peach is still my favourite role of hers, though i wasnt sure if i would warm to the character at first. the first darker edge to the series comes from her with a suicide attempt, she is a weak willed person who had the potential to become a character that would just annoy you with her simpering needy behaviour but she just wasnt like that after all.

tamayama tetsuji who i also hadnt seen before is the key member in this drama, linda, who brings all the characters togther. he is also a weak willed soul but it is hidden from everyone at first. linda creates a twitter group of the five strangers due to a work project but it soon becomes a life line of true friends. his character is mostly responsible for my massive puffy red eyes right now.

ueno juri looks so beautiful in this i think it may be my favourite role of hers too. eita spends the whole series in leather trousers looking really really quite awesome, and hero jaejoong looks as he always does - suspiciously perfect (i swear he's too beautiful to be human).

nakaji (eita) and haru (ueno juri) have an iffy first encounter but become best friends almost accidentally. the pair look well suited for each other romantically but it is a completely tangled mess; doctor (hero jaejoong) falls in love at first sight with haru when the twitter group first meet, nakaji has some other crazy stuff going on with another woman, and haru seems to have really fallen for nakaji unaware of how the doctor feels for her.

this is only episode one!

this mess gets more and more tangled and uncomfortable. i actually stopped watching it a few episodes in to have a break from the constant disasters.

it was genuinely exhausting at first.

the more doctor's character developed the more i was rooting for him but the relationship between nakaji and haru was so sweet i was torn. maybe it would have helped if they hadnt got someone as beautiful as hero to play that role -

it was great to see him act so adorkable though, flapping about like a puppy and giggling like an idiot.

ive been waiting for a eita/ueno drama where they actualy manage to get together so when i started to really like doctor aswell i couldnt decide how to feel. it was so frustrating.

i wont say details of who else falls for who but there are quite a few love swaps as you progress through and it left me feeling a little dizzy. i truely loved all five characters so much. i was trying to work out how the writers could make it so every one ended up happy - i was honestly pleading it would be magically all better somehow.

well, i liked the ending but the few episodes leading up to that point made me cry so much that im just glad its over! i feel like i could watch it again and enjoy it now that i know how it all pans out. but then again, it would still make me sad for sure.

a lot of stuff happens with linda that i wasnt expecting that just broke my heart.

i was expecting something like haru rejecting doctor in some epic way for nakaji and feel terrible even though i loved the pair - but really it all went a bit nuts. 

well yes i got to see doctor cry as i thought i would but not over haru - i really dont want to watch hero jeajoong cry ever again, its like watching angels taking bullets for demons - and ive seen eita cry before but my god he made me lose it this time, the man can really sob.

i really have got quite a headache now.

there are lots of fun moments in this drama - there would have to be or we wouldnt love the five so much but having had very close relationships with my own friends and experiencing similar situations i can say it felt pretty real sometimes. if they hadnt been such good actors maybe i would have noticed

how over the top the story lines probably were

but when you look back over your life things do just happen and tangle up like that.

i can do nothing but gush about sunao really, it was brilliant. it was just so nice to watch nakaji and naru's friendship grow but i am truely exhausted from all the ups and downs.

oh yeah, and nakamura yuichi plays haru's younger brother so yay for that too. never get tired of seeing his face.

my favourite bit in this drama you can look forward to is doctor going nuts beating up a load of guys with his brief case. awesome.

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