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Gravure model-turned actress Nozomi Sasaki (佐々木 希) for all your lolita needs.
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At a glance:
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| Cute as a button. In other words, jailbait. |
Not that this is a Vatican daily and we're too uptight - but Cathay-Keris Films release
My Rainy Days (2009) @ 天使の恋 @ 出租天使 (Romanised Japanese transliteration: Tenshi No Koi) is first and foremost, a very dangerous movie. No, we're not even
talkin about the sleazy-lookin poster, which depicts the glorious bare
back of Nozomi Sasaki as Rio, the schoolgirl whore who falls in love
35-year-old history teacher Kouki Ozawa (Shosuke Tanihara) after a
chance meetin. We're talkin about how a popular mobile phone novel now
gets NC16 screen time in a social irresponsible movie that glosses over
the serious issue of child prostitution with glam halter tops, credit
cards and Louis Vuitton umbrellas, making it merely incidental in what
is, in essence, a love story with no moral resolution.
Bad news on the doorstep:
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| If only he could resist. |
The danger
in making a commercial movie for general release that intentionally
overlooks opinion (especially when one is obviously needed) is that
people, regardless of age, might really think that these things are
normal and socially tolerated. This is ironically worse than the
position where a movie glorifies lolita lifestyle from the outset. In
My Rainy Days, we are treated to a two-hour long doomed (and
potentially illegal) relationship between two people, which is stylishly
shot but frighteningly hollow. Undertones of abandonment, bisexuality
and feminism carry the film but everythin is incidental to the plot and
the sum experience is largely unrewardin.
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| Love hurts. |
Perennial wonderment:
Lolitas.
Reminds me of:
Lolitas.
Amacam joker, berapa bintang lu mau kasi?
If none of this bothers
you and you really are looking for a movie with some pretty movin
pictures to look at,
My Rainy Days is by and large an unlikely
Japanese romance that is mildly entertainin in patches (despite
replicating the overdone brain tumour plot device you get in every other
Korean drama) thanks to the MTV chemistry between the lead pair and
some unexpectedly rich story detail. You feel that writer and director
Yuri Kantake knows exactly what he wanted. The problem is whether it's
what you want as well.
★★
Bonus material:
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| Surely you could do better than this. |
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