HMRWS - Starring Ballerinas!

[Seil]

Fuck you. Fuck you Japan. You're weird and scary and creepy and fucking fuck.

A while back my older brother decided to watch one scary movie a day for the month of October. I thought that it would be cool to do the same, seeing as I had a pile of movies I hadn't seen yet and needed to get some motivation to actually sift through the pile.

I saw "Audition" and was like "Oh, hey, I saw Ju-on. It's one of my favorite horror movies! The Japanese do really great horror!" So I sat down and watched it.

Fuck you, Japan. This is like culture shock meets Hellraiser.



Story begins with Japanese man sitting next to his wife on her deathbed. Their son is walking to the hospital room carrying a present for his mother. She passes away before he gets there.

Years later, the man is sat at a bar with a friend who's in television, talking about life. They start talking about women and

1) The conversation is sexist.

2) I don't know whether or not the conversation is sexist because of culture or because

3) This could be the beginning of a terrible romance movie.

Man starts talking about his dream girl, and his TV friend devises this crazy plan to hold auditions. He's going to create a TV show based on a concept and hold auditions so that Man can meet someone.

Man thinks this is crazy, but really does want to meet someone. He decides to give it a go, and TV friend sends him the resumes that he's receive -a lot of resumes. Man finds one girl in the pile and falls in love with her picture and the blurb she's written on her resume.

The interview process is interesting, as the film's title should warrant.

Man pursues girl, girl.... look at the damn box cover:



It's like Quentin Tarantino if Quentin Tarantino were an axe murderer!

It's a fabulous example of how cinematography and editing can screw with everything all of the time.

Final Opinion Should you watch this? Yes? No? I don't know? It's not just that the film is weird, or creepy. I've seen that, I can deal with that. It's not that my own love life is non-existant, and I can relate to some of the characters. It's not even culture shock. It's just Eihi Shiina.