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Although visually tricky with some strong set pieces, The City of Lost Souls is rather hazy when it comes to story and characterization. We get little sense of the runaway couple as people. A young blind girl is introduced into the tale and there are romantic moments between Mario and Kei, but these feel like sugary palliatives to the bloodshed rather than touching moments. Better perhaps to check out Miike's Audition, a brilliantly gruesome satire on male Japanese attitudes toward womanhood. This is a flashier, faster, but less artistically satisfying affair. --David Stubbs
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Takashi Miike |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 08 August, 2002 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Ventura Distribution |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Widescreen, Dolby |
| TYPE: | Foreign Film - Japanese |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 634991131629 |
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Customer Reviews of The City of Lost Souls
Fun film To me this would be the most overlooked Takashi Miike film. Or to say that's it's more overlooked of his region-1 DVD releases.
This film is nothing like i've ever seen done. It takes multiple languages/cultures and clashes them in a funny, violent and all around fun film. The characters are kinda cartoonish but they all have a dark edge to them. The lead man Mario (played by japanese-brazilian porno star Teah) barely speaks thoughout the film but he has some sorta superhuman edge to him. The story here is that Mario just got outta jail and his woman Kei is risking deportation so after crashing the deportation bus and killing a few people he gets Kei, not before they envelop a plan to rip off some coke from a yakuza/triad/russian mob connection. Yeah it's confusing but easy to follow. The soundtrack is awesome, with some punkish tunes to fit the mood and more mellow songs to fit that mood. It all works well. There is violence, and lots of it, a few quick but awesome shootouts and some bloodier goings on but not as brutal as other Miike films (DOA for one). The acting is good, but like I said it's a bit cartoonish and over-the-top at times. The ending is well.... A letdown in terms of quality. But this is still a great film, with lotsa style (a CG chicken cockfight for one term), humor (a midget, slapstick humor) and just plain fun.
Recommended.
Another Miike Classic!
This film was made by Takashi Miike, one of Japan's newest avant-garde directors (also known for using enormous amounts of violence and gore in his films). This film is one of his tamer offerings, and pays homage to the classic noir and Hong Kong action films. The story is about Mario, a Japanese-Brazilian immigrant and his Chinese girlfriend Kei, who become involved with a heist only end up with a shipment of cocaine instead of cash. The two have to escape the country while evading the Yakuza and Chinese gangs seeking the stolen drugs. The film is rather unique with its perspective of multicultural Japan and Miike's trademark craziness featuring midgets brushing their teeth with cocaine, a hilarious Matrix spoof using cockfighting and death by ping pong.
"People in this world, we have no place to go..."
At the risk of sounding very pretentious, I think that some of the negative reviews miss the point of the film. First of all, I agree that the action sequences are excellent, but there is another dimension here. This is not a conventional action movie; it is about desperate, lonely people looking for a sense of place. They behave so recklessly not because of courage but out of desperation. Even Fushimi, one of the only main characters who is not an expatriate, is tortured by a sense of Japan's waning nationalism. Overall, I think it's an outstanding movie: stylish, smart and not entirely without depth. And the 'play ping-pong?' scene surely deserves a place in the modern cinema pantheon along with the laser scene in 'Goldfinger.'