casting an incredibly hot sexy j-pop idol as a homicide detective in is unoriginal and makes it hard for the viewer to believe her to be the character she plays.
+her acting sucked she was so empty and shallow and the repetitive boring zooming into her face made it worse.
Hard to believe that this was directed by Tsukamoto
She wasn't that bad, but yeah you could tell she wasn't a good actress.
Coming is my style, but I have to go.
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Hitomi does fine in the role. Not Royal Shakespeare Company material perhaps, but she's an amateur actress in a demanding role, and she acquits herself well.
Regardless of the fact that Nightmare Detective is his most mainstream film (after Hiruko), it's still very much a Shinya Tsukamoto film, and if he wasn't happy with Hitomi being in it, she wouldn't be in it. A great film.
>Hard to believe that this was directed by Tsukamoto
Indeed, Tsukamoto is the creator of an absolute masterpiece ("Tetsuo"), very good films ("Tokio Fist" and "Bullet Ballet") and absolute rubbish like "Hiruko the Goblin" and this movie. You can't never be sure with him, in my opinion.
In this case, acting is anime-style, the plot is really predictable and the soundtrack absolute standard. On the contrary, cinematography is, from time to time, pleasant.
I din't known the name of the director when I started watching the movie, then I saw him acting. I prayed till the end to be wrong, but looking at the ending credits I saw his name.
I'm really disappointed.
SPOILER ALERT!!!
to me the biggest mistake is killing masanobu ando's character! he's the reason why i watched this movie & i was pretty disappointed not seeing ando through out the movie!
Thats being too petty. She actually played her role rather well (and her character was weak, but she still tried to work with what she had)
She would never win a best actress award but at least she is trying (& as someone else pointed out they would never have let her be in the film if the director wasnt happy with her)
The part where she was going psycho (touching herself, head, body legs) was awful.
shareI agree... she was terrible... even if the objective was for her to resemble an expressionless zombie she didn't manage to quite pull it off. This movie was one of the biggest wastes of time I've ever experience on the cinema and it was all I could do not to doze off several times during it.
shareWhen I read the title to your post I just KNEW it had to reference Hitomi. Living outside of Japan, it may be easier to take. But when you live here, the casting of "talents" in movies gets REALLY old REALLY fast. What happened to having a singer be a singer? Or an actor being an actor?
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