Memories Of Matsuko

[pro-bassoonist]

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Tetsuya Nakashima's Memories of Matsuko (2006) has a received a preliminary release date: February 14. Winner of three Japanese Academy award - Best Actress (Miki Nakatani), Best Editing (Yoshiyuki Koike), and Best Music Score (Gabriele Roberto,Takeshi Shibuya). The film also won a Kinema Junpo award for Best Actress.

Synopsis:

Shou's father Norio finds his son in a rather meaningless existence in Tokyo dominated by alcohol and porn videos. Having left home two years earlier to pursue life as a musician, Shou has left his band and his girlfriend has left him. His father asks a favor, that Shou clean out the apartment of his aunt Matsuko, who he says led a meaningless life until her murder at the age of 53. The apartment is filled with garbage bags and is even more unkempt than his apartment has become, and he becomes intrigued with his aunt as details of her life are supplied by a tattooed neighbor and others. Her feelings of neglect by her father Tsunehiro, who favored her chronically ill younger sister, Kumi, translated into becoming a dutiful junior high school teacher devoted to her students until being forced to resign after being blamed for the theft of some money by one of them. Leaving her family due to the disgrace...

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[zombeaner]

Third Window I presume?

[pro-bassoonist]

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[razor81]

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It looks like you put wrong year in the database system (2014)
Supposed to be 2011

[pro-bassoonist]

Originally Posted by razor81

It looks like you put wrong year in the database system (2014)
Supposed to be 2011

Thank you (it came out very late last night). One of my colleagues corrected it.

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[AnimeOnBlu]

Looks like this has a lossy DD 5.1 Japanese track (source). Really worried now "Confessions" will get the same treatment.

[nightcrawler]

I watched this last night - and really enjoyed it. Strong Blu-ray transfer with eye-popping colours throughout. I can see how this is somewhat a "marmite" film in that it polarizes opinion. The bright, strong colours and music numbers juxtaposed against a story of domestic violence and murders makes for an interesting contrast. The lead actress was captivating, and I liked the visual style of the movie - sort of a Jean-Pierre Jeunet style filmed in Nintendo-vision!

[xradman]

Wow, what a movie!!! It's one of the best films I've seen this year. In terms of eye popping colors and mix of animation and musical numbers, it can't be any further from Confessions. Among Tetsuya Nakashima's films I've seen, it's my favorite by far and I loved them all. Highly recommended.

[Dankwai]

Apologies for bumping this old thread but the Tetsuya Nakashima is one of my favourites and i love this film so much.

One thing i only recently realised is that the actor who plays Tetsuya Yamekawa (the writer who Matsuko dates before he commits suicide) Kudo Kankuro is actually a professional writer as well as an actor in real life. In fact he wrote the Japanese morning drama Amachan which was around 40 hours long and is for me easily the best of the four Japanese morning dramas i have seen so far. It was also a huge hit in Japan.

I also love the music very much in the film (bend and stretch etc.), koibito yo and all of the little references to Japanese culture like the musical stings from classic japanese mystery drama.

The director Tetsuya Nakashima has a new film coming later this or early next year.