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8 September 2007 (Japan) morePlot:
Kenji, abandoned by his mother, scrapes out a meager existence doing odd jobs including driving bar hostesses and their customers home... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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A sad departure from the glory of Eureka more (2 total)Cast
(Credited cast) | Tadanobu Asano | ... | Kenji Shiraishi |
| Eri Ishida | ... | Chiyoko Mamiya |
| Yuka Itaya | ... | Saeko Shiina |
| Yûsuke Kawazu | ... | Kijima |
| Kengo Kora | ... | Yusuke Mamiya |
| Ken Mitsuishi | ... | Shigeo |
| Aoi Miyazaki | ... | Kozue Tamura |
| Katsuo Nakamura | ... | Shigeki Mamiya |
| Jô Odagiri | ... | Goto |
| Yoichiro Saito | ... | Akihiko |
| Kyûsaku Shimada | ... | Sone |
| Kosuke Toyohara | ... | Kawashima |
| Maho Toyota | ... | Makimura |
| Kaori Tsuji | ... | Yuri Matsumura |
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Having been literally astounded at the glory and beauty of Aoyama's film "yurika" I was very much looking forward to Sad Vacation. I ended up at the Oslo International Film Festival with a free ticket and 2 friends who wanted to watch My Blueberry Nights. I managed to convince them to watch Sad Vacation.
There I sat in the darkness of the cinema watching a film unfold that had some stark moments of beauty (when tadanobu floats down the river) and some great shots. However, the film seemed muddled, over-thought out, incoherent. The stories crossed over, the explanations were not always complete.
The ending happened to be one of the silliest and most bizarre things ever witnessed on film, which is perhaps the reason for it, but it didn't seem like a fitting end to me.
Overall I would not rate this as a bad movie. Its just that when you have seen what Aoyama is capable of it feels like he betrays you a little. Perhaps thats down to high expectations, perhaps you are hoping for another "eureka".. perhaps.
All I know is that this film didn't capture me. I doubt very much I would give it a second viewing either because there was nothing that drew me back to it after I had seen it.
Let it just drift on as a forgotten movie by a fantastically talented director who hopefully pulls up his socks and knocks us out with the next one.