7/10
Must be Fantasia time in Montreal if I'm seeing a Takashi Miike movie in July. This was the festival opener, a musical/romantic comedy filled with Miike's signature sillyness. In fact, the movie is at its best when Miike is at his silliest - it starts to take itself a bit too seriously by the end and drags because of it. The musical numbers are ridiculously catchy and well-written, and often the film is quite funny though it's hard to figure out just when Miike is being serious and when he's being ironic. It actually reminded me a lot of Sion Sono's Love Exposure, but nowhere near on the same level. A tighter edit would have stopped the act from becoming stale, in the end.
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