Friday, January 18, 2008

Tanaka Hiroshi no subete (2005)



Director: Makoto Tanaka
Release date: 2005
Genre: comedy 
Cast: Minoru Torihada, Mariko Kaga, Koichi Ukeda, Hijiri Kojima ect.


Tanaka Hiroshi is a lonely 32 years old man working in a wig factory. He doesn't expect much from life, doesn't even give much. He is a lonely guy not looking for companions or girlfriends,  and becomes lonelier when he lose his mother and father in a very short interval of time.There are many women around him but it seems like he doesn't open his heart to any of them-he doesn't know how to do it. Hiroshi Tanaka is a man who can sense the change in the nature and express it by words in haiku, but he is not able to understand if the woman he likes is lesbian or not. The prostitute he pays to teach him on sex for the first time feel sorry for him, and teaches him that he needs to really open his heart to the person he loves and serenader totally to the feeling of love. Losing the last member of his family-the cat, Hiroshi starts fighting for love and life. He ends up on the street with the bento -girl walking towards the future in which "something good must happen"(something will happen anyway..."nantoka naru"). They almost get killed by falling constructions blokes. Being so close to death he realizes that he need to take the opportunities that  life  offers to him. 

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