Mayonaka otome sensô

Name: Mayonaka otome sensô
Genre: Drama
Released: 2022-01-21
Duration: 1 h 53 min
Rating: 5.3
Cast: Akinori Andô, Tasuku Emoto, Elaiza Ikeda

2022
1h 53m

IMDb RATING

5.3/10

YOUR RATING

Drama

Nagase Ren takes on the role of "I," a university student who moved to Tokyo and is living alone for the first time. I has no friends. I has no girlfriend. The lectures at the university wer... Read allNagase Ren takes on the role of "I," a university student who moved to Tokyo and is living alone for the first time. I has no friends. I has no girlfriend. The lectures at the university were horribly boring, and I was always looking at Tokyo Tower on the way back from his labori... Read allNagase Ren takes on the role of "I," a university student who moved to Tokyo and is living alone for the first time. I has no friends. I has no girlfriend. The lectures at the university were horribly boring, and I was always looking at Tokyo Tower on the way back from his laborious job. While being attracted to the ruthless, dignified and intelligent "Senior," played... Read all

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IMDb RATING

5.3/10

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9zelena33

Eye-popping, intelligent, and twisty

This superb Japanese coming-of-age-in-dystopia drama is absurdly low-balled in the IMDB ratings because... it's maybe not for everyone. It is challenging and not really aiming to please wide audiences, but it will become a cult classic for sure.

With strong echoes of at least two other films from the past 25 years (to the point of blatant homage - to mention them would be a spoiler) this film makes some pretty abrupt twists in tone that didn't come off quite as well on screen as they did in the director's head.

Still, it's visually rich (hat tip, Chris Doyle) and with strong creativity in sound design, it plops you right into the sharp pain of survival in the 2022 economy for 19 year olds, but also the pain of trying to have friends, love, and meaning in your life with the ****show world we live in now.

Any film this unusual is a rare treat and makes this a must see for fans of Asian cinema, although "movie" fans might as well pass.