Loved it

Whoops, I may have answered late. Well, anyway, here’s my post, in answer to the guy/gal before ggulcher:

According to Dictionary.com, fantasy is:
" 1. Fiction characterized by highly fanciful or supernatural elements.
2. An example of such fiction"

That seems to be right on par with this movie. For some reason you are mixing up fantasy with science fiction, or based on what I can make out from your garbled grammar. This movie is about different paths people take and their different personalities emerging when facing a choice or predicament. Some of the predicaments land them in places they did not expect- like the Gate of Rage for murdered souls. The Devil is discussed, as well as supernatural entities, and the power of obsession. And I loved the sword fighting--they were highly ritualistic, and great eye candy.

"I was trYING to pay attention.but come on.this is not only sf it's also funnily stupid.let's see you alive long enough to type a reply without your heart
oh and american movies make more sense (note:not all , not labelled SF movies"

The scenario of how the murdered characters actually manage to function for a few minutes without their heart is actually explained early in the film--I won't spoil the film for people who haven't seen it, but it's there, and the explanation is supernatual, not placed in science fiction.

"usual people's reaction to my not liking foreign bullcrap movie:well you hate it cause you are foreign.also people don't normally think much before saying that "

You have just demonstrated yourself your contempt for any plot that doesn't involve racy characters and a fast and cliche'd outcome (such as many of the western mainstream films these days). Not everything can be solved in 30 minutes and have scary moments punctuated by laughter or a commercial.

I myself am not even remotely Japanese and I loved the pacing and the attention to the setting. Ever tried watching this thing on a large flat screen with the score blaring? Brilliant. Even though it was fantasy, the movie had a touch of reality when it came to relationships- they were believable.

Most Japanese films are much much slower than american films, and they focus more on the presence on the screen. Lost in Translation, a recent film (it’s so famous so I won’t dive into the specifics) is actually American-made….but it’s about a man in Japan, and it does actually have the same type of slowness to it. Unsurprisingly, many westerners couldn’t get over that initial fact at all.

If you got to the opinion that the movie is total bullcrap just based on the heart issue and how slow the film progresses, I doubt that you really got the point of it all anyway.