Loading ...Takahashi Miike once again takes love in his own, very unique way. A story based on Ikki Kajiwara and Hisao Maki’s novel, Takahashi’s 2006 surreal art house thriller Big Bang Love Juvenile is depicted in an unknown future time.
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From Japan’s most creative and outrageous filmmaker comes a film that Takahashi claims as one of his personal masterpiece, starring two of Japan’s hottest young actor in films. Big Bang Love, Juvenile in a more detailed fashion is a film that might baffle people who are not use to same sex relationship. Unlike movies like Izo, the various scenes of Big Bang Love comparably come together and make a lot of sense. Its murder scene that brought the investigation does little more than provide the audience a thorough line for casual viewers to follow until the film reaches its end. The investigation’s outcome is satisfying enough that will leave viewers at peace while walking away providing a sense of closure.
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Inside a juvenile prison center, two young guys – Kizuki (Masanobu Ando) and Ariyoshi (Ryuhei Matsuda) – from vastly different backgrounds wined up imprisoned in a strange jail house where they experience a different kind of bond that transcends both of their lives. When one of their fellow prisoner winds up dead, instant investigation starts in an attempt to find the perpetrator behind the bloody crime, but what takes place in reality seems to have little effect on both of them as they develop an intimate relationship with each other.
Both Ariyoshi and Kazuki are still stuck in a juvenile prison cell in the past. The warden who is currently on duty quickly realizes this and tells them to live in the present. The brutality of their crimes continued until sent to prison and both of them are aware of the connection they are sharing, though Aniyoshi seems to dwell with it more than Kazuki. But what made the two men drawn to each other is their similarities, although it’s their differences that cause them to separate.
The films tropical sequence at the beginning of the film condenses both Ariyoshi and Kazuki’s character down to a few senses. Taking place primarily on a fairly minimal setting, the movie all throughout feels like it is adapting a stage play act. The prison where prisoners are being detained is made up some architecturally absurd colors and designs, learning more about yellow than anything else, painted the whole set in a rather creepy light. The approach gave the picture an unorthodox but extremely theatrical appearance and tone that works according to its theme, hostile and bizarre environment for the movies plot.
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The performances of the actors and actresses are noticeably strong. Ando in particular is worth noting because of his character who obviously stole the show with his melancholy tender portrayal.
Overall, at just an hour and a half in length the film doesn’t over stay its welcome, rather it winds up on a fairly noticeable note, reminding us that love stories do really happen even when you are behind bars. The movie definitely showed love and substance in its every scene.
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