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Loosely based on the best-selling novel by Korean-Japanese author Yu Miri, this film tells the story of a whacked-out Korean family who with some trepidation allow a film crew to shoot their everyday lives for the purpose of making a fictionalized documentary.
Familial tensions wreak havoc on the production from the outset. Daughter Yoko works as a porn actress and her brother, Kazuki, apparently suffers from autism. Outbursts from family members constantly disrupt the proceedings, until it becomes difficult to distinguish scripted dialogue from cacophonous improvisation.
JK Water Tower upstairs, Written and directed by Arik Kaplun, himself a Russian emigre, this overly contrived and broadly comic film focuses on a group of immigrants in a Tel Aviv neighborhood during the gulf war. Her vulnerability and waiflike good looks arouse the protective and other instincts of her womanizing neighbor Eli. AS Water Tower downstairs, The first feature of cinematographer Yu Lik-wai is a sharply etched portrait of the desperation and longing of four immigrant outsiders adjusting to the rapidly changing culture of contemporary Hong Kong following the end of British rule.
Ah Ying has drifted into petty crime and prostitution. PZM Water Tower downstairs, As in classic Hollywood rear-guard war pics, each baby-faced recruit is given a distinguishing mark, a quasi-heraldic emblem—one has a foxtail affixed to his helmet, one has a dog named Castro, one a pet rat that rides on his shoulder. As punishment, the patrol is sent to an isolated checkpoint whose sole claim to military importance seems to be the sniper trying to wipe it out.
