So full of attitude that it fairly leaps off the screen with claws bared
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08/29/08
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Sakuran (2006)
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Reviews Counted:10
Fresh:7
Rotten:3
Average Rating:5.7/10
Consensus: Sumptuous and arty Japanese geisha flick, tastefully filmed, but with irritating soundtrack. Like Marie Antoinette with Sake instead of Champagne.
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Reviews for Sakuran
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In short, Sakuran is an enjoyable, superbly directed and impressively acted drama that gives a delicious manga-slash-J-pop twist to the geisha story. Worth seeking out.
08/29/08
If it is all a little like an arty novelette, there’s no doubt it is a feast for the eye.
08/29/08
But Ninagawa’s obsession with image-making saps the story until the movie, like its heroine, is merely handsomely mounted.
08/29/08
Ninagawa, like Sophia Coppola in Marie Antoinette, brings to a traditional story a keen compositional flair and a love of bright colours, as well as deploying a lively, jazzy soundtrack.
08/29/08
As the story progresses, it settles into something more traditionally sorrowful, but not before it has delivered a blast of energy.
08/29/08
The pop star Anna Tsuchiya is duly fetching as the young upstart, but not fetching enough to prop up a cast-iron potboiler.
08/29/08
The characters are likeable but thin and, despite a few raw, persuasive scenes, the script feels emotionally stunted.
08/29/08
The staging is sumptuous but the imagery is static and the anachronistic score is a major irritant.
08/29/08
Loud and lurid, this dazzlingly picturesque peek through the courtesans' fishbowl embraces the very cosmetic illusions that it also exposes in a world of exploited women.
08/27/08
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