Japanese Film Festival (Singapore)

One take no edits ... 74 min ..

LIVE TAPE wins Best Film in its Category at TIFF 09. News just out of Tokyo.

Was Mars Canal the first one? Oh man...think I missed it cos my friends and I were late (for only 5-10min!)...how was it?

this is a good one men! visuals soooo powerful + artistic direction + costumes + lighting... and mother/father/child/child (adult) brillant performance... was wondering y the father is so addicted to sex, esp nasty sex and was also wondering how the gal grew up to become a bi-gender kinda of effiminate boy (trapped in adult body)... but maybe ... See Moredirector/scriptwriter intentionally leave out these details as he just wanted to invite us to enter a surreal/claustrophic world full of violence and sex... a classic cult film is worth watching again : )

one good head explosion, sick things done to chickens, multiple genitalia mutilations! what more can u ask for in a flick? :)

hope the dude that trip & fell in the front rows during the show is ok :)

The hideous side of mankind is more horrifying than Horror ghosts in different forms and music that brings u goosebumps...

amazin amazin amazin. set is sooo good. claustrophic. anyone can go crazy staying in dat warehouse for prolonged period. both the male and female leads are supre! and the mother also steals some limelight (very sensual and incestous r/s with the son)... by chopping off her limps, the bline scupltor brought the statue alive! and that links us back ... See Moreto the opening when he sensually touched/felt the statue at the exhibition. at their deathbed, they both created the "greatest" art piece in collaboration

wonderfully provocative and philosophical, art can only be constrained by man's imagination which can be shallow as the sky or deep as time. What then is man's joy or his peril, that by which whos' art humanity is entreated to perceive. Were the leads "lost" or did they find an ulitmate expression of art? Did they achieve a mastery of their senses ... See Moreor take leave of them? Does art then have a barometer which bursts when imagination surpasses the physical laws or breaks our social fabric of life? was this what Aristotle meant when he said "no excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness?" ... ..

The fantastical style and fairy tale-like story telling lead me to interpret the film à la Freud:

The haunting house is the projection of the lead character, Fairy, hatred towards females around her. She dislikes her classmates as she is tacitly singled out in school as coming from a wealthy family; More apparent, she also rejects her soon-to-be stepmother.

It is therefore both ironical and appropriate for the director to name her Fairy and end the film with the monologue about "Love".

So... who's your favourite girl? FANTA for me :D

i am so sad am not bale to catch the Jpnese film fest this year because at the same time,ironically i'm gonna be in Japan...sigh...but it's all good.Have a good time everybody!