Ai to Makoto (For Love's Sake) (Miike, 2012)

[HungFist]

Miike goes manga again

Teaser:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMMHfhdAsjU

Via AV Maniacs / Sheldon Warnoc

Ai to Makoto (aka The Legend of Love & Sincerity) is based on a 1973-1976 manga by Ikki Kajiwara and Takumi Nagayasu. It was first adapted into a live action movie in 1974, starring Ai Saotome (Ai) and Hideki Saijou (Makoto). A live action TV series followed a few months later, with Kimiko Ikegami and Yusuke Natsu playing Ai and Makoto. Two more live action films were made in 1975 and 1976 with the same cast as the first film, except that Ryu Kano played Makoto in the 3rd film. The new Miike film stars Emi Takei and Satoshi Tsumabuki.

The English title features the character names translated. Ai and Makoto are common Japanese names, but when written in Kanji the written characters also posses meanings: love and sincerity.

Here's the OP from the series:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BnEt__u1w0

Manga + live action TV series


Live action film DVD box set + old VHS


via
- http://pilotofairwave.blog21.fc2.com/bl ... ry-22.html
- http://dmwj.net/1970/view/80?continue=1

[HungFist]

Trailer:
- http://youtu.be/8b2083NkWyU
- http://aiandmakoto.jp/

via logboy

[Xenon]

Shouldn't be too bad, I guess. Loved both Crows Zero movies.

[HungFist]

The lame new version of Ano subarashii ai wo mou ichido is a bit distracting, though, especially after Asami Miwa's version in the ecstatic ending scene in Anno's godly Love and Pop.

[HungFist]

Shouldn't be too bad, I guess. Loved both Crows Zero movies.

I hated the first Crows Zero, but liked the second one a lot.

Found the first one terribly boring and hated the editing and cinematography in the action scenes... I only liked the opening and ending credits scenes, which reminded me of the golden days of Sogo Ishii...

Crows Zero 2, on the other hand, must be the most awesomely homoerotic film in ages, and a worthy addition to the Japanese high school action genre. I only went to see it because I had extra time to kill, and was really suprised by how good it was. Cool, funny, staggeringly violent for pg-12, and with an awesome soundtrack, too, aside from Meisa Kuroki r&b which must be some Miike joke...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWmCFM0N5QM

[HungFist]

The new official English title seems to be For Love's Sake

Miike fans and genre film fans in general are in for a treat with For Love's Sake (Ai to Makoto, 愛と誠). Entertaining as all get out.

[HungFist]

"...greatly rewarding, supremely intelligent and undeniably gripping romantic thriller..."
- http://www.filmoria.co.uk/2012/05/canne ... ke-review/

[HungFist]

"Any fears that Takashi Miike might be mellowing with age are roundly dispelled"
- http://www.screendaily.com/reviews/the- ... ferrer=RSS

a hybrid of West Side Story and his own Crows Zero films, though the resulting mess is more likely to satisfy fans of the latter than the former.
- http://www.timeout.jp/en/tokyo/feature/ ... -Sincerity

[HungFist]

well, this sucked. I'll elaborate in more detail later. But in brief: ugly super-charged visual look, distracking lack of lip sync in musical scenes, forgettable fights, and terribly overlong with zero character development in 134 min. Sakura Ando is cool, though.

And to put the critisism in perspective, this comes from someone who loved Yatterman, and found Crows Zero 2 very good (the first Crows Zero was bloody awful, though).

[HungFist]

My review:

"A tired pop-cult mess by Miike"

Ai to Makoto (2012)
- http://sketchesofcinema.wordpress.com/2 ... oves-sake/