Not total crap, but . . .

Do japanese police interrogate, fingerprint and jail kids who jump busfare? Really?

Do kids showing near-mentally challenged ability with an electronic keyboard get told not too much later by their piano teacher how extraordinarily gifted they are? Really? Then give a flawless concert of DeBussy? We will set aside the obvious absurdity of the kid, zombie-like, with his family walking away while audience members turn in slow reverence, while I and most anyone else I asked who had seen the movie wondered if showing said slow reverence was supposed to make me or anyone watching this film feel said reverence. It does not. When the next line could well have been "We are not worthy" for all the sense that had passed immediately before, you know you're in the nonsense zone.

Does a stumbling man walk over and over again into garbage strewn by the side of a bridge/road, said garbage spaced perfectly evenly about 10 feet apart, leading to the obvious conclusion that Japanese do not fling their garbage, but place it with measuring tape. Really? That made perfect sense?

A kid who lets go with her drink at the mall that dad works at, the mother saying to the kid, I told you not to do that again. When did said kid do that before? A day before? An hour before? Would this be the natural response of a mother if that were the case? Expecting the kid to remember he was scolded once -- sometime -- for spilling a drink? And Kurosawa wrote that impossible throwaway ine and is seen as an auteur? Really?

Basic questions such as these should never be asked if one has just viewed an award winning film. Regards, suckers.