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I disagree. You can do good things for other people as well as benefit yourself. There is a fine line in there somewhere and for me Teiichi is still on the good side of it...along with his boyfriend Komei. :D

My fave was that floral suit he wore on his date w ith the girl to the Turtle House or whatever it was. Suda pulled it off superbly. I mean, hell, I'd wear that suit.

Holy shit. I am THIS close to giving this hysterically funny, and also touching, film a 10/10, something I have never done before because I basically don't believe absolute perfection exists on Earth. But his is damn close, so 9.5 it is! Wow. I only found this film yesterday when I finally got around to searching Suda Masaki's filmography here because everything else I've seen him in, while not as wild as this, has benefited greatly from him being in it. He is a phenomenally talented actor.

I must have laughed explosively 50 times at least. There were so many unexpected little sight gags that took a great deal of thought to make happen; those are the ones I enjoyed the most. But all of the acting was SO excellent and funny; I wonder how many scenes had multiple retakes because actors kept breaking character to laugh at each other.

If I tried to pick a favorite scene, I"d never be able to because there are countless good ones, but it would probably involve Teiichi and Komei. I had no idea how gay this was going to be, and not just from those two. All the innuendo and suggestiveness was all over the place. What a hoot! Oh, maybe I DO have a favorite scene...the naked drummers scene...like, wtf? lol So many hot young guys with their asses hanging out in such an improbable situation, hahaha...and it went on and on, that's the best part. And hell, that drumming had to be damn hard to learn and perform. It's just too bad they denied us Dan's butt. omg...so freakin' funny.

This is an all-time favorite. I have only been watching Asian films for about a year and a half, but I've watched a LOT of them and this is near the top of my list. Which is saying a great deal, because though I like comedy, I generally prefer drama. And of course, Suda does it all. Sadly, as much fun as this was, I'm guessing I missed a lot of other laughs just because I'm a Westerner and missed some cultural references.

Sophisticated and low-brow at the same time, Teiichi's Country rules.

9.5/10 Bravo!

I actually am in favor of a three-way in this case. She's a good gal. :)

Kang Dong Won selects his roles with care, I'm told. I'd love to hear why he chose this one, which is decidedly different, to say the least, from other characters in other situations I have seen him take on. He is a talented actor who conveys powerful emotions with restraint, but this time around I would like to have seen MORE from him, especially in the climactic final few minutes. I mean, here Father Choi is, struggling against all the powers of Hell and the underworld, and he seemed pretty chill about it all to me on the bridge. :) Up to that point I was with him all the way in how he portrayed the role.

The other priest and especially the girl were tremendous in their roles. She blew me away. Took her role to the limit but it never fell over into parody or silliness. I was pretty freaked out, as I like to be, by her conversations, shall we say, with the head priest.

I don't think the original version of the American film "The Exorcist" will ever be matched for horror and suspense, but it was mostly about building tension and mounting fears and creepiness as the mother slowly ran out of all options but to turn her daughter over to a priest. The gross-out scenes were crucial, but weren't the focus as they are here. Here, and maybe someone else can explain, it was clear that the parents were NOT OK with what was going on in the upstairs bedroom, so how in the world did the Catholic Church just force its way in and take over?

I love this type of content and this is one of a very FEW exorcism/possession films that didn't seem silly or stupid to me. 8/10

Hi Duncan. Yeah, the dad flying through the air in slow motion to punch the mom full-out in the face was just weird...he could have pretended to be having a heart attack and fallen down, calling her name, there are a hundred other options. And yes, the golf-club beatings, played for laughs, were disturbing and odd and didn't fit the rest of the movie. The girls slapping the guys was hysterical, especially when they started getting slapped BEFORE they even said anything because word had gotten out what they were up to. lol

rainn.org is a SEXUAL ASSAULT fetish site, by and for people who think they have been SEXUALLY ASSAULTED. That's a VERY objective place to get your definition. But even that hyper-sensitive source doesn't list HICKIES as a form of SEXUAL ASSAULT. lol

Please point out and quote me where I said any of those forms of sexual assault are "OK." I most certainly did not. I said they are OK in the world of FICTION. You refuse to admit there is a difference between reality and fantasy/fiction. And operating from the premise that there is NOT a difference is a fucked up way to go through life. But live it up, you clearly enjoy your self-righteousness. Again, are YOU OK with murder because it is the key plot point of a million different movies and you may have seen some of them? Are you agitating to have those movies censored?

I have read about sexual assault problems in the Czech Republic. Believe me I think the U.S. is a fucked-up country in many, many ways, but from the sound of what I've read, your problem is WAY worse there. That's just a fact. I'm not trying to defend the U.S. This place is a mess in a lot of ways.

I knew you would bring up "victim blaming" (one of the SJW phrase-book's most popular entries), probably in response to my suggestion that you wear shorts or pants if you're getting groped on the subway. So don't, if you don't want to; I don't care. But it's kind of like looking walking in the rain without an umbrella and then bitching that it's the rain's fault you got wet. Well, yes, it IS the rain's fault, but the bottom line is you GOT WET. If you want to get groped on the subway, go to the police station, press charges, go to court, see the perpetrator punished, etc. then go ahead, your choice. It's the groper's fault, but you still got groped and I would think you'd want to prevent that.

I never said people are not influenced by what they see and hear in fiction, but are you willing to see a government start censoring shit like China does, and decide what we see and hear for us? Maybe you are, but I'm not. And again, you haven't expressed your outrage at all the OTHER non-sexual crimes portrayed in fiction, like freaking murder to begin with. Are you not against that? Should it not be portrayed in fiction? Good luck with that. lol

Your next paragraph ("problematic," see SJW phrase book), gets to the heart of your hangups. You like it. I hate it. It's primarily the acting/writing/production design/direction that I don't like, but yeah, the romeo and juliet story as presented in BB is stupid and juvenile and boring to me. So guess what? After two episodes, I FF'd through almost everything except shirtless Ohm. Because the rest is juvenile, amateur bullshit.

Another predictable accusation: that I am obsessed somehow with sex. No, "obsessed" is too strong a word. Perhaps "fascinated" or "interested" would be more appropriate description of my take on it. I DO think that the human sex drive is behind a LOT of behaviors that are non-sexual on first appearance. Normal people love sex and the wonderful feelings it engenders, before, during and after the act(s). Sex is simply a big part of life which is why it's a big part of fiction. What, exactly, is wrong with sex scenes? Note how you mentioned "sex scenes" and lumps rape right in with tender consensual, enthusiastic love-making because it's all "sex scenes." You don't hate rape. You hate sex.

Those of you who want to live in fantasy worlds where there are lollipop flowers and cotton candy clouds can watch and read the stuff like BB and similar fantasy-land material. Me and millions and millions of others like our fiction with a little grit, a little reality, conflict, sex, jealousy, scheming, excitement, etc. I think a world with more Bad Buddy stuff is a frightening place, but I suppose there is tons of that stuff already out there so go read and watch it. I'm curious: At what point did you stop watching TharnType? Did you watch all the way through?

Your overall attitude toward sex reminds me of that of my parents and their parents, etc. They talked prudish on the outside; the topic of sex was avoided at all costs. And yet me and my siblings all had sex before marriage, my parents were having sex, their parents were having sex, billions of others were having sex, but it wasn't deemed fitting for discussion or portrayal. You are my parents all over again.

Finally, as to BB: Any normal, healthy young men of their age would be banging away every chance they got, especially given their romantic feelings for each other. Young men and boys are horny 24/7, but that very real aspect of life was not portrayed because prudes like you want to pretend that gay men don't do it as often as they can.

By the way, your English is really good. If you had told me you were born and lived in the U.S. I would have believed you.

Thanks.

Wow. This is an excellent short film. The overall concept of a victim seeking revenge on a bully, at first not realizing that another bully is thereby making him a bully for the first time AND a victim all over again. The acting overall is great, first rate. I never cease to marvel at the remarkable level of acting/directing I see in so many Asian films.

The actor playing the bully is excellent. I hated her on first sight, despite her beauty, and she never overplayed the villain; she wasn't a complete repetition of every female bully I've seen in an Asian film, though the trope of a female school bully certainly has been done to death.

To me, the great overall story/plot deserved a full two-hour treatment. Things were rushed because they had to be to fit into an hour, but still well-worth a watch. I was thoroughly engrossed. And the ending was refreshing without being totally rainbows and unicorns.

I do find the idea of students AND teachers/administrators being so slavish and purposefully blind to the obvious behavior of a monster like this girl a little hard to swallow. They weren't just ignoring the abuse, they were facilitating it. Does this actually happen, even in Korea? Am I hopelessly naive?

8.5/10

Ayano Go is a tremendous actor. I did not realize he looked familiar and who he was until half way through the movie, which I still don't know and will research. But great acting. Amazing what glasses, a little facial hair and different head hair will do to change a person's looks.

I loved this movie until about halfway when, as others have said, it seemed to become something else. I also wasn't sure what it became but I knew it was a little boring and less interesting than the first half. I was annoyed that Ayano's character immediately became this spiritual/psychological guru as soon as he gained his new way of seeing things. He not only SAW the wild visions, he knew exactly what was behind them. That seemed a little silly to me.

Loved the special effects. When are we going to get a gay or woman director/writer so we can see all these hangups applied to the male body? :) Speaking of bodies...Ayano has worked on his since last I saw him. .Wow.

If the second half had held me like the first half grabbed me, I would have given this a 9/10. Alas, it was not to be.

7.5/10

totally agree. The dad loved a freaking fish more than his son? Could have been interesting if it had turned out to be a child's interpretation of something much larger and darker going on that he couldn't understand at the time and which was revealed in that scene toward the end. But no, a fish, that's all it was.

Let's see...this movie is about extreme body modification and what that extreme is is a fucking extreme modification/fetish, which you seem to be boiling down to ONE fetish. I saw LOTS of modifications and many different fetishes, if that's what you want to call them, not one. The blow job pose toward the end was so heavy-handed and silly that I thought that wasn't really the intention but how could it not be? Rather than making some point, to me it just pulled me out of the scene and made me want to laugh.

It's not just the Japanese with the rape scenes, it's the Koreans too. I have no objection if said rapes have a valid plot reason for being, it's just that they seem so rote: The girl/woman is half the time in a school uniform, mocking the guy who rapes her moments before it happens, then she becomes a whining/sniffling 5 year-old. I dare say there's a lot going on with virgin/whore dichotemy in Asian culture? Kind of like here in the west but the virgin is a schoolgirl instead of the mother of god.

Yeah, don't see how you think this is torture porn. In one scene the dude tortures himself.

My god, Korea has been through so much hell that I had absolutely no idea about, especially the fact that they were still struggling against military tyrants to become a democracy into the late 80s. Tyrants backed by my country, the U.S.A. of course. God, so many shitheads always ready to claw their way to power and do anything to stay there.
This was a gripping and well-produced tale, though it got a little too John Wayne/bombastic a few times.
Sol Kyung Gu has become one of my favorite Korean actors in the last couple of weeks. I just watched his incredible performance in " Peppermint Candy" a few days ago.

8.5/10 from me.

Holy god, this is terrible. I read below that it won some award. How in the fuck it did that I have no idea. I kept watching for all the handsome young actors in it, especially Kim Young Min who is a really good actor as well, but half the time I had no idea what the hell was going on. The credits list KYM as just one character but it seemed to me he was playing two or three. I mean, during those scenes where he apparently owns a auto repair shop he has a big black mole on his face and a really bad curly hair wig on. Other times the mole is gone and the hair is straight. Then he's a freaking monk and MDS' character seems to know him from the army. WTF is going on. Thank god we were allowed that gratuitous long-shot of him and that assistant to MDS when he was torturing people going at it on the floor of that room. Nice butt. And what the fuck was that all about? Was he the same guy. Were there time shifts that I missed?

The torture scenes and their little pretend Army camp, complete with a green room/makeup room where they got ready to play soldiers, were ridiculously amateurish. At times it felt like a parody and I wanted to laugh. Something off about the lighting and set design. And what was up with KYM sneaking around photographing the fake soldiers, one of whom was the girl he was pounding earlier, right? And why in the world did these evil, rich corporate/government bastards have some random school girl killed? WHY? Never explained.

I loved when handsome KYM would watch and listen through the window of their makeup room with his entire face and head visible thorugh the wire. lol And no one notices! hahaha And at the end where KYM in full combat gear, and god knows why he needed a gas mask for what he was going to do, walked about 20 miles in uniform, to get to the meditation rock where his prey just HAPPENS to be having an emotional breakdown. That was some major-ass scenery-chewing there, but I guess MDS has earned our forbearance. :) Oh, and then when the pretend soldiers left their lair and left the place open with all the lights on so KYM could walk around and check things out. whoo...the list of sloppy-ass story telling and bad direction is endless.

I see people here lauding this director's work. They are nuts. It doesn't surprise me that whoever directed this silly thing also directed the piece of garbage Moebius. Christ.

The Tag List, which should be put behind a button, as it is actually a list of spoilers, makes this sound like fun. I'm !

That's how I was at that point too, plus several times before. Did you catch the motorcycle scene I was talking about?

I'm sorry, it's not listed on his filmography and I can't remember it off the top of my head. If I think of it I will come back here and leave a message.

Sol Kyung Gu is...I'm having trouble finding words I haven't used before...sensational, amazing, stunning, breath-taking, brave, nakedly vulnerable, convincingly brutal and everything in between in this film. He carries the whole thing but I never got tired of watching him. Wow, what an actor. Why is he not a huge star in Korea if not the rest of the world? Maybe he is and I just don't know it. I hope so. He blew me away here.

I don't usually go for films that flow backward in time but this one totally worked for me. I thought the train metaphor was maybe a teensy bit ham-handed, but I've never seen it used this way before and it didn't annoy me.

I will be thinking about this movie over the next few days and will definitely second-watch it, as I do all films that grab me like this. I just realized that the film took me on this unique and wildly emotional ride but I, an easy weeper, never shed a tear. Hmmm...I wonder what that's about, because I was completely into the story? Weird.

Just realized also that, though the range of emotions was wide here, I don't think I ever saw the ML truly, deeply happy, even at the end. There is a melancholy edge to him even then before all the nastiness to come.

Highly recommended. 8.5/10

Thank you, I appreciate that.

Oh, thanks.

I just re-read it and was annoyed at myself that I wasted so much verbiage bitching about Dailymotion instead of talking more about this masterpiece.