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hania4987
Jan 16, 2014hania4987 rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
this is another movie that is trying to make art instead of what this is ... an adventure story encompassed in a love story; so it ends up missing on all levels. It's told as a narrative by Herve in a very downbeat passive voice so you never really experience his journey to Japan which at the time was a closed society. You never fully experience his relationship with his wife or community. it was picturesque in places, evoking traditional Japanese landscapes, lots of musical passages with no dialogue and actually very little plot. Disappointing.