Strange and languid but with purpose, Last Life in the Universe sees two memorably quirky characters navigate love and violence across multiple movie genres. Read critic reviews
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Movie Info
Lonely librarian Kenji (Tadanobu Asano) flees Japan to avoid Yakuza who have mistakenly targeted him. He ends up in Bangkok, where isolation and anxiety have pushed him to the brink of suicide. Unexpectedly, he meets free-spirited bar hostess Noi (Sinitta Boonyasak), who is dealing with her sister's recent death. The marijuana-loving Noi is nothing like the perpetually nervous Kenji, yet they form an odd bond over their sadnesses. But Kenji doesn't know the Yakuza have followed him to Bangkok.
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Rating: R (Violence|Drug Use|Sexual Content|Language)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Original Language: Japanese
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Director: Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
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Producer: Wouter Barendrecht
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Writer: Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, Pradba Yoon
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Release Date (Theaters): wide
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Box Office (Gross USA): $31.7K
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Distributor: Palm Pictures
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Production Co: Cinemasia, Bohemian Films
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Critic Reviews for Last Life in the Universe
Audience Reviews for Last Life in the Universe
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This one was quite a light film as opposed to what I was expecting. The story is odd, but not appealing enough. Slightly slowly paced, this flick is neither serious (dark and interesting) nor an out and out entertainer. Watchable, but not a must watch.
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Christopher Doyle participates in Thailand's take on Chungking Express. Compulsive decisions and meaningless existences are meant to collide in a journey of epiphanies and self-discoveries. Sounds familiar? Well, Ratanaruang flawless and sometimes Lynchian take on the human psychology delivers the goods with truly believable humanism and episodic interferences of memories and fantasies. Extraordinary and exceptional gem with Takashi Miike as a cool plus. Are you complaining about the small pathos going around the last minutes? Think again. I'm actually not surprised at the ratings of several Flixster users; the lowest they get, the more I am convinced this is a great flick. 96/100
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Thai/Japanese drama about two isolated people hanging out together after their siblings are abruptly killed. I was wary about waching this as I feared it would play out like a cute romantic comedy, but it doesnt in the slightest, just two people getting the space and time to get to know each other in the worlds messiest beachside house. <img src="http://img.listal.com/image/1617915/600full-last-life-in-the-universe-screenshot.jpg"> From CEWEBRITY's favourites list
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This is a good movie. It's definitely going to have a limited appeal because of the type of movie it is, but honestly speaking I didn't like this movie as much as I thought I was going to. Maybe is its very minimalist approach, not that there's anything wrong with that at all, but there's hardly any dialogue. Well I shouldn't say that, because there are some scenes that are very dialogue heavy, but it just seems like there's little to no dialogue being spoken in this movie. What I did like about the movie is Kenji's and Noi's relationship and how that relationship progressed. It was interesting to see because of the language barrier (even though they spoke in english) and how they interacted with each other. Plus the actors had really good chemistry despite the fact they could not understand what the other one was saying (maybe they did...who knows?). But one thing I did not get was near the end, when Nid started appearing in Noi's place, then Noi reappeared and Kenji never acknowledge this. I didn't get what that meant, but it was all very surreal. I think I'll watch this movie again, I think it's the kind of movie that requires multiple viewings. With that said this movie was pretty good, albeit not as good as I wanted it to be.
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