Intolerance is out at dramahd and avistaz but I wanted to watch it at a cinema to support this Furuta Arata movie.
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Furuta Arata is a stubborn fisherman who is divorced and has care of his daughter while his ex-wife is pregnant to her new husband. Matsuzaka Tori the boss of a small supermarket and catches Furuta Arata's daughter stealing. He drags her to the supermarket office but the daughter runs off and boss gives chase. As Matsuzaka Tori is about to catch her, the daughter crosses the road and gets hit by a car. So now we have a very angry father of dead daughter and boss of struggling supermarket.
From the director Yoshida Keisuke who made the must watch Himeanole, Intolerance is a movie about people finding blame when tragedy strikes. It is about tragedy being made for consumption by the media and public while people involved are just trying to make sense of it all.
THE GOOD
+ This is the type of angry but entertaining ojisan that Furuta Arata excels at. He just has that screen presence and nothing he does is boring.
+ Matsuzaka Tori is well cast as the supermarket boss who is under just incredible pressure.
+ There is a 'disgusting scene' near the end that has been building up that made everyone in the cinema go eww.
+ The directing is good and you feel like a fly on the wall watching the tense scenes.
+ While it is a serious movie, luckily there are some funny scenes.
THE BAD
- Nothing bad about the movie
THE MEH
= Script is nothing that we have not seen in so many jdoramas before. I would say the script is decent but if not for Furuta Arata, this would be an average movie.
SUMMARY
Very watchable movie carried by Furuta Arata. He needs to get nominated for his acting by all Japanese movie awards. I need to watch more Yoshida Keisuke movies because clearly he is a very good director.
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