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Koki Mitani is a director that film critics tend to treasure. Reviewed by speedpop-1 9 / 10 The magic hour of sunset before the night As with any out-and-out comedy, the jokes are hit-and-miss, but it easily scores enough hits to warrant a viewing.Īs throwaway as they come and not without its flaws, but ultimately satisfying nonetheless. Particular highlights include Sato's bizarre knife-licking antics during the first meeting between Murata/Togashi and Boss Teshio, the dialogue between Sato and Terajima about 'where you're shooting from' and the sight gag early on involving cement shoes and painted toenails. Luckily, these concerns matter little in a film clearly intended solely to entertain - a feat which it accomplishes in abundance. It's not the film's only problem it suffers from a particularly weak female lead (in fact, all of the female roles are criminally underwritten), a total lack of logic or flow and a fairly bloated running time that the material doesn't really justify.

Ayase's short monologue early on, for example, enouncing her feelings of being in a movie, is particularly grating. This kind of self-reference permeates the film, occasionally to its detriment. The show really belongs, though, to Koichi Sato, verily hamming it up as, well, a very hammy actor. It even has a cameo from Kon Ichikawa, sadly shortly before his death. Ridiculously light-hearted, enough to put even Jeunet's Amelie to shame, with a sort-of all star cast that includes Haru no Yuki/Dororo star Satoshi Tsumabuki, delightful young up-and-comer Haruka Ayase (sadly given little to do here) former Monkey star Toshiyuki Nishida and perennial Kitano stooge Susumu Terajima amidst a host of other recognisable faces. It's pretty easy to see why The Magic Hour went down so well with audiences in its native Japan. Reviewed by El_Farmerino_Esq 7 / 10 Extraordinarily pleasant. But this is a minor quibble in a very funny movie. Sadly, the movie goes for almost 2 hours and 15 minutes, so the story starts to run thin and it becomes a little bit too long. The movie keeps a nice pace, the direction is good, and the action, always with a touch of comedy, is breezy.

Satô, as the poor third-rate actor who believes that he has the chance of his life to become famous, and Tsumabuki, as the guy that is just trying to keep alive, do a great job and have a nice chemistry together. It helps to have an amazing cast, with lots of familiar faces from modern Japanese cinema, that any fan will have a blast recognizing. As a comedy of misunderstandings and lies it does its job perfectly. 'The Magic Hour' is a very funny and not very complicated movie, that has an easy to follow plot, with lots of unexpected moments, and that loves to put its characters in ridiculous situations. But Bingo doesn't know where to find Togashi, and comes up with a plan: hire an actor to play the part, but without telling him the truth instead he tells the actor that all is part of a movie. The boss decides to postpone his death and gives him five days to come back with the assassin. To save his and the woman's life, Bingo decides to lie to his boss and say that he knows the famous killer Togashi. 'The Magic Hour' is a movie with a very simple and charming plot: a guy gets in trouble with his gang boss when he gets into a relationship with his boss's girlfriend. Reviewed by tenshi_ippikiookami 7 / 10 A lighthearted movie that stays for too long

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