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Richard Attwood |
A Weatherwoman Japan, 1996 [Tomoaki Hosoyama] Kei Mizutani, Eisei Amamoto Comedy / Fantasy |
What the hell was that all about? This surely is Japanese film making at its worst and does nothing for the cause of overlooked quality foreign output. I was expecting something along the lines of To Die For but instead got a truly bizarre story of two battling mystic weatherwomen.
It all starts with an ambitious lady with a strange propensity for flicking herself off in public toilets, who sends ratings for her networks news programme soaring when she flashes her knickers when presenting the weather. It's all going swimmingly when the network owners granddaughter returns from Paris to restore some decency to the channel. That doesn't sound too bad does it? Well, I forgot to mention there are some spontaneous musical numbers, enema jokes, fights and it all culminates in a battle of the elements (some spell casting type thingy) with commentary from the head of Japan's metereological department. Sheer madness. Interesting fact: subtitled movies can be fast forwarded at double speed and you can still keep up with the plot (if that is actually possible) but see the film in half the time. |