In an English subtitled interview in the Extras section the director seems genuinely puzzled that this movie would strike such a chord with audiences around the world, but while a family that still takes pride in once having been vassals to a shogun era feudal clan might SEEM utterly alien to non-Japanese, it really isn't if you just stop to think about it because we all know (or know of) similar sorts of families in our own countries: cop families, fire fighter families, military families, etc., and members of such families would have no trouble grasping the idea that if one of your own messes up, you have a family obligation to make it right.īeing too nice (or too lovesick) to bail on Natsuki when she reveals her plot, Kenji stays, experiencing the tortures of the damned in fear of his eventual, inevitable exposure and enduring treatment from Natsuki's huge extended family that varies from overwhelming to nerve wracking to downright cruel, but along the way something happens. Instead this is a movie about families, about what holds them together, about what tears them apart, and in particular families with a tradition of service. Though precisely that problem confronts our protagonists, nor is this a screwball comedy romance though our nerdy everyman of a hero gets conned by the most popular girl in school (whom he has a secret crush on) into pretending to be her fiance at a family gathering (Yeah, THAT'S gonna work!). To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Click "Decline" to reject, or "Customise" to make more detailed advertising choices, or learn more. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Cookies store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. Your choice applies to using first-party and third-party advertising cookies on this service. If you agree, we'll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie notice.
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