4.9????????
Is it really that average? I'm yet to watch, but I guess I'll pass, despite it being mentioned in JapanToday article dedicated to Japanese cinema of today.
shareIt's worth your time but don't expect blood and guts. Read this summary http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3290882/synopsis which may help you decide. I really liked it and gave a 8/10. The low imdb score is probably due to the Trump cult who dismiss anything "foreign" unless it's an reality show.
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Thanks, appreciate your reply and summary, made me czech it out some day. I reckon it doesn't help sometimes to trust that imdb rating. Loved Blue Spring and 9 Souls by him. Btw Trump is really way over his head, but hey what can you expect when someone's stupid rich, and the stress usually goes to "stupid" :)
shareBlue Spring and 9 Souls are by Toshiaki Toyoda, completely unrelated to Uzumasa Limelight, no?
Uzumasa Limelight is an easily-above-average drama film that seems to have received positive reviews all-around, something I'd expect to have around a 7 on here, so the 4.9 is one of the more bizarre scores I've seen in a while. It has nothing to do with 'Trump', or American's dismissal of anything foreign, since there's no reason for these mainstream foreign-movie-hating American audiences to have seen or heard of the film. In fact by checking the vote statistics, the average from US voters is 7.0, and most of the ratings are sensible, but 200 non-US apparently-mostly-female voters gave it a 1/10.
So my guess is there was some backlash against the film on some foreign forum somewhere for god-knows-what reason, amongst people who probably haven't even seen the film, that accounts for the low score.
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And if you look at the director's other films, you'll see that every film of his has huge amounts of 1 ratings, from which you can assume that there are a number of people that really hate this guy, and want his movies to fail. It's also possible, and I think more likely, that there is only one person, who creates multiple accounts.
shareOh wow, yeah, he has 17 other films/shorts and none of those score higher than a 2.3/10. I personally can't imagine one person creating 200 unique email addresses and logins for the sake of downvoting some obscure Japanese filmmaker's movies, but at any rate, some group of people out there must hate this guy, for some reason...
And of course this further proves the low score has nothing to do with the movie itself.
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" I personally can't imagine one person creating 200 unique email addresses and logins for the sake of downvoting some obscure Japanese filmmaker's movies..."
-Well, I can not only imagine, I know this has been done to ALL Ken Ochiai's movies at IMDb. As it is so obvious, that there is a person who HAS done this - They're called trolls, usually former employees or other disgruntled individuals who carry a personal grudge. This isn't a coincident, once again, you can clearly see the manipulation, when you look at the vote breakdown - There is no way in real world, where work of this category would warrant 54% of "1" ratings - as you can see from the vote breakdown, the real ratings do form a clear peak around the 7, and at the same miraculously there's a huge number of 1s. Incidentally, I wonder if the same guy is behind this campaign against Ken Ochiai, as there is another similarly orchestrated rating manipulation done to another Japanese director, Takeshi Kitano's film "Ryuzo and His 7 Henchmen". At least on that case, we know it is a manipulation, because the guy wrote a bad review saying he is a former employee and just about bashed the movie in his ONLY review, and ONLY IMDb activity to this date, which in itself is pretty obvious.
Thanks, Cuckoo, that's very illuminating. What a lot of hard work just to do someone down.
I saw both films at the London film festival and loved them both. I'm a British woman aged 67, btw.