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Matsuko's memories fit into place
By
Derek Malcolm
12 Jun 2008
Tetsuya Nakashima, who made the excellent Kamikaze Girls (now showing), tells the tale of Shou (Eita), a feckless young man who finds the body of a female tramp in a park and embarks on a journey to investigate her life.
The old woman turns out to have been a teacher called Matsuko, who fell from grace into prostitution. Miki Nakatani is good as Matsuko as Nakashima blazes retrospectively through the decades from the Fifties to the Eighties with stunning visuals and strange musical set pieces. Somehow it all makes sense, even if a lesser director might well have botched it.
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Reader views (1)
I really liked this film although it depressed me afterwards. Funny, quirky and the lead is a wonderful actress but it's not got a happy ending.
Really worth watching.
- Maria, UK, 27/11/2009 16:23
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