[Romance/Action][Movie] Love Exposure

Title: Love Exposure
Original Title: 愛のむきだし (Ai no Mukidashi)
Release: 2008
Director: Sono Sion
Language: Japanese
Genre: Horror / Mocumentary
Length: 237 minutes

Short summary:
Yu grows up in a Christian family. His father is a priest who is left by his wife. So the priest becomes very different from before. He asks Yu over and over again for his sins but there's nothing Yu has to tell. That is why Yu becomes disappointed and starts to make sins by taking photos of girl's underwear. Now he can finally tell his father some sins which makes him very proud while the priest becomes angry. One day Yu dresses up as a woman (Sasori) and gets to know Yoko who falls in love with Sasori. Yu's father and Yoko's mother start a relationship which now makes Yu and Yoko brother and sister but the girl can't stand men. Also she still doesn't know about Sasori is her brother.
Aya who is a girl of the "Zero Church" tries to get the family for her church. Besides Yu everyone believes what she says and so they become a part of Aya's church. Yu finally tries to get Yoko out of there by using a bomb...

Review:
As you can see it's a very long movie with very much story. Every character gets explained You can see the history of them. Also there are connections to other movies (Sasori for example). I guess these details make the movie so special and so interesting. I really enjoyed watching it since it has a huge plot which I love! Also ist very exciting and dramating. There's a lot of action but also some triggering angst. Still it's a romance in the end and I shed a lot of tears!

Rating:
Action: 7/10
Excitement: 6/10
Fun: 3/10
Fear: 1/10
Romance: 5/10
Drama: 4/10
Violence: 5/10
Erotic: 1/10
Moe: 1/10
Total: 7/10

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[Horror][Movie] P.O.V.: A Cursed Film

Title: P.O.V.: A Cursed Film
Original Title: ＰＯＶ～呪われたフィルム (POV Nowareta Firumu)
Release: 2012
Director: Tsuruta Norio
Language: Japanese
Genre: Horror / Mocumentary
Length: 92 minutes

Short summary:
This movie is about two girls who are filming some TV show. They watch some footage in the studio but there seems something wrong with it. Suddenly they see some strange woman in the window reflection. They decide to go to the place where the footage was filmed and end up in a school one of the girls went to during middle school. They feel being followed and some strange happenings take place.

Review:
I really like the start of the movie. It's really exciting and I got scared many times. The part at school is also made very good and the actors behave very natural. It's really sad that the end of the movie is so disappointing. It wasn't scary anymore. It got boring but somehow funny in a very bad way.

Rating:
Action: 3/10
Excitement: 6/10
Fun: 3/10
Fear: 5/10
Romance: 0/10
Drama: 1/10
Violence: 1/10
Erotic: 0/10
Moe: 1/10
Total: 5/10

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[Drama/Romance][Movie] Air Doll

Title: Air Doll
Original Title: 空気人形 (Kūki Ningyō)
Release: 2009
Director: Korēda Hirokazu
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama / Romance
Length: 125 minutes

Short summary:
Nozomi is the sex doll of Hideo. One day she suddenly comes alive but won't tell her owner about it. For him she's still a normal sex doll. She looks for work and goes to a movie store were she starts and get to know Junichi. They fall in love but it's not that easy with a doll that's filled with air.

Review:
First I was surprised about a Korean starring a Japanese in a Japanese movie. Also because of the fact she is Korean her Japanese was different wich was kind of strange. But when I got used to it I really enjoyed this movie. I like the dialogs and the way everything is represented. It's a very quiet movie anyway and there's a special atmosphere about it. I really would watch it again.

Rating:
Action: 0/10
Excitement: 1/10
Fun: 2/10
Fear: 0/10
Romance: 7/10
Drama: 7/10
Violence: 1/10
Erotic: 2/10
Moe: 1/10
Total: 6/10

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[Horror] [Movie] Tales of Terror from Tokyo - #110 The Japanese Doll

Title: Tales of Terror from Tokyo - #110 The Japanese Doll
Original Title: 怪談新耳袋第110話「市松人形」 (Kaidan Shin-Mimibukuro dai 110 wa "Ichimatsu Ningyō")
Release: 2010
Director: n/a
Language: Japanese
Genre: Horror / Short-Story
Length: 5 minutes

Short summary:
A young woman comes to her mother's house to visit her. During the night she hears little footsteps on the floor and her mother talking to someone. When the woman askes about who her mother talked to she doesn't get an answer.

Review:
Well, it's a very short movie (since it's part of a collection) but kind of cute. It's not really scary though. Just nice amusement.

Rating:
Action: 0/10
Excitement: 1/10
Fun: 3/10
Fear: 1/10
Romance: 0/10
Drama: 0/10
Violence: 0/10
Erotic: 0/10
Moe: 0/10
Total: 3/10

[Horror] [Movie] Noroi - The Curse

Title: Nori - The Curse
Original Title: ノロイ (noroi)
Release: 2005
Director: Shiraishi Kōji
Language: Japanese
Genre: Horror / Documentary
Length: 115 minutes

Short summary:
Noroi is a documentary-styled horror movie about rituals and curses.
A paranormal expert named Kobayashi Masafumi is the main character in this movie. Along with his camera he visits a woman called Ishii Junko who behaves quite strange. It's said that the neighbour often hears the cries of babies. But Kobayashi can't find out more about that at first. Later in the movie he gets to know Kagutaba which is some kind of demon and which is related to Ishii and the baby screams. In rituals (called Kimatsuri (demon festival)) Kagutaba was venerated but during those sessions also many paranormal happenings occured.

Review:
For me it was only the second time to watch a documentary-styled movie. So it was still quite new for me. And it's been very interesting.
In the beginning you get to know the story little by little. Kobayashi always takes his camera with him to interviews with people or on excursions. Sometimes there are also shown some tv shows and stuff like that. It's done very good although in the beginning nothing really happens.
It takes a while until you understand how everything comes together. And while you try to connect all the incidences the movie also becomes more scary and just more excited. It's not like you see any monsters or something like that. It's always only very short scenes where you can recognize things that shouldn't be there. But it's only for a few seconds which makes the movie so frightening. You always wait for more.
In the end the "documentary" is finished and you're told that Kobayashi is missing but he sent some new film material.
This ending just freaked the shit out of me! I LOVED it. It was kinda surprising and also scary. I really needed to watch something fun afterwards.
It's perfect fo a frightening horror night in a dark room in front of the tv. Two hours of disturbing scenes.

Rating:
Action: 3/10
Excitement: 7/10
Fun: 0/10
Fear: 9/10
Romance: 0/10
Drama: 1/10
Violence: 4/10
Erotic: 0/10
Moe: 0/10
Total: 9/10

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