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Iwai is much less baroque, an electric watercolourist to Wong’s neon performance artist. I saw it as the flip side of Wong Kar Wei’s glittering panoramas of lost love, like Chungking Express or 2046. You should remember her with her red umbrella in the storm. Takako Matsu does a good job of not saying much, being awkward, yet gaining the audience’s sympathy. You really do have to remember your first love affair to know that this is right. There is little dialogue, not much of it significant, no resolution to the story. Nothing happens in the film aside from what is required to sketch in the situation. This mood is enhanced by a soundtrack which is largely romantic piano solo. He frames Matsu again and again in careful compositions whose arrangement of colours is both heady and formal. Iwai creates just enough distance from Mireno, the character played by Takako Matsu, to observe her with affection, to smile at her awkwardness and absurdity and to note the tenacity with which she pursues her objective. The film shows the inarticulateness of a shy and inexperienced girl from Hokkaido set down amidst city slickers in a Tokyo university. It is virtually a one woman show for actress Takako Matsu. Shigatsu monogatari (1998) April Story*****Īpril Story runs for little more than 65 minutes. A touch of Bladerunner and a score that gave rise to a best selling album. About half way through it begins to dawn on you you’re watching a masterpiece.

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The plot has a cassette tape found in a grisly hiding place that gives the code for replicating high currency notes from street corner change machines, as well as Sinatra’s My Way (believe me, they sing it their way). Sometimes given the sci-fi tag, this sprawling two and a half hour episodic drama from Shunji Iwai stars the charismatic Chara (one of the world’s greatest pop singers). If only life could be like this on the day the world does end. In anyone else’s hands this would be a stiff ‘art’ film in Iwai’s it is simply beautiful. Tadanobu Asano, Chara and Koichi Hashizume happen to be the patients, which is pretty insane. Set design and cinematography are superb.Ī 70 minute film from Shunji Iwai, in Picnic three mental patients go on one in order to watch the world end. The film says more about love than a thousand films marketed as love stories/romances. The man both women love is seen to be different again from their two different impressions of him. Stars pop singer Miho Nakayama in a dual role. Elegant and visually beautiful, it preserves a perfect balance between the dual pitfalls of sentimentality and pretentiousness. Shunji Iwai made a breakthrough in 1995 with this story of two relationships with the same man that take place in the memories and through the contact of the two women who loved him. It reminds me in its structure of films by Cocteau or Tarkovsky but remains very Japanese, both in theme and set design. Tomoko Yamaguchi playing Moemi is compelling: the film wouldn’t succeed without her talents. A cinematic fable that succeeds by quite brilliant acting that keeps you constantly involved. She attempts to hold everything together, with string, and eventually enmeshes Yukio in her web. In this 50 minute film by Iwai, Moemi slowly unravels as her husband Yukio withdraws into his writing. Uchiage hanabi, shita kara Miruka? Yoko kara Miruka? (1993) (TV) All his other work is interesting, and there are four masterpieces that are essential viewing.

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His TV work is best avoided unless you’re Japanese.

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He appears to like to release alternately a short one hour film then a full length one. All About Lily Chou Chou is his most substantial work and apparently the one he is proudest of, yet there is something quite delicate and accurate in each of his films that I’ve seen. He has a mass audience of teenage girls in Japan and has something of the status of a pop star yet he is much more than just fashionable.

As a director he has been consistently successful in striking a balance between trend setting and trendy visual styles and delicate observation of feminine predicaments. There are signs that with success Shunji might be turning away from directing films, and following some of his other interests. Shunji Iwai (岩井俊二 ) from Sendai is not just a film director: he is also a video artist, scriptwriter and novelist, editor, actor, composer and, more frequently now, producer.