She plays the slutty wife type in both this and in Guilty Romance, easily seduced to do it with any random guy.
Not that I am complaining because she's super hot, but it's pretty unrealistic that she'll just let some old guy do her right after they met.
And in Guilty Romance she becomes a slut looking for sex from strangers and a hooker just seemingly at a flick of a finger.
I didn't like how any of the women were portrayed in this movie- sure the guys weren't portrayed much better, but the women were shown to be sluts and spoiled brats! :S I hope poor Miss Kagurazaka will get more non-slutty roles in future!
shareckhafre: Totally agree. This movie was terrible with its portrayal of female dependency and irrationality. If I was a woman I would've turned it off after about 30mins, it was insulting on every level. No female character in the movie had any redeeming features at all (except of course that they were not bad to look at).
shareI agree that all the women in the movie were nice to look at too! :)
Now that I think about it, though, there weren't any good guys either- except for that young driver, but even he was portrayed as an idiot. The women were sluts/spoiled brats/psycho killers and the guys were idiots/cowards/psycho killers. :S I was wondering what kind of message the movie was trying to make, and all I managed to get out of it is: "human kind is doomed and we must all die" (what with that constant 'the world has been around for 4.3 billion years and will disappear in another 4.3 billion years' line)- I couldn't help wishing the Earth's final year of existence was here while I was watching this movie! :S I'm no stranger to dark and bizaare Asian thrillers (my favourites are Strange Circus, Oldboy, Suicide Rom, and Battle Royale), but there was something truly anarchic and crazy about this movie.
you obviously don't know Japanese culture .Japanese women are very subservient!
Everyone knows that.
By the way: the actress, Megumi Kagurazaka , is actually in real life the wife of Sion Sono!
shareI think the important message everyone's forgetting is that the daughter didn't get the message in the end. the man's life was insufferable, yet no one understood it. She was a reflection on the audience.
The old man who put this guy through hell tried to tell him to lighten up & be happy, then in one scene mentioned he did so because it shielded himself from his haunting past with another "elder". He saw himself in the meek young man & pushed him into that dark place he's tried to avoid all along.
Our protagonist friend took the full measure to illustrate the importance for us all, of why he said & did what he did, rather than pass on the torch of this vicious cycle. yet, like the daughter, never really understood it & just came to the forums to start laughing, kicking & screaming over a ice cold dead fish.
You obviously went to the Weeaboo school of Japanese culture.
Japanese women are NOT very subservient. But, keep on believing the stereotype, loser.
you obviously don't know Japanese culture .Japanese women are very subservient!You're full of sh!t, and a racist too.
Everyone knows that.
I don't really agree with your view on the women's portrayal. I mean I agree that it was bad, but every character in the movie was portrayed as an extreme of some sort. Also, Taeko and Mitsuko were portrayed in completely different ways. Taeko was portrayed as submissive and dependent, Mitsuko portrayed the precise opposite way, defiant and independent. You can't have it both ways. There wasn't a sexist portrayal of women, just a general extreme portrayal of various personality types, and some of the characters happened to be female.
"The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor."
- Voltaire
Wow Stalin?????
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