On-Gaku: Our Sound was a pleasant surprise, and ended up being one of the funniest movies I've seen in ages. Much of it feels like it's scratching my exact kind of humour; I'm a sucker for deadpan/understated absurdity, and On-Gaku has that in spades, especially early on.
It's a creative look at a trio of young guys who want to start a band, even though they have no musical talent. It's a premise that's been done before, but the scrappy charm and amazing sense of humour found in On-Gaku make it soar.
If I had one complaint, it's that it got a little slow for me around the middle, maybe suggesting that even at just 71 minutes, it struggles to fill that runtime entirely. It was never boring for long, thankfully, and proved able to find increasingly strange and entertaining tangents to go on. I don't know if it'd be for everyone, but I enjoyed myself a lot.
