Kyoki no sakura

Clockwork Orange meets American History X meets a manga comic book in a Takashi-Miike-a-like movie.

This film's a lot of fun - the obvious enthusiasm of the director is highly contagious. There are sequences of jump cuts that look like a music video, wipes in all directions, arty shots mixed with footage that looks like it was shot on a camera only a step or two up from Super 8.

I'm not entirely sure that the story makes too much sense because I was watching a DVD from Hong Kong with subtitles apparently provided by the same people that write the English translations of the instruction manuals you get with cheap electronic products.

But, hey, if you like Asian films in general, you'll love this one.