JUMI on tour: IFFR 2014

It was time again to go to the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). This year we totally loved, again, a new movie of Miike Takashi: The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji.

The Mole Song
This funny movie is based on the manga "Mogura no Uta". It's about a police officer, Reiji, with a strong sense of justice. Reiji is ordered to become a mole. He has to infiltrate Yakuza. Reiji is strict and tough, yet in some situations he goes too far. This leads to hilarious moments (OMG, that part with the yakuza initiation ceremony. Rejij misunderstands something and starts to eat the plate). Reiji is just a bad undercover cop. His clothing, his attitude, a tough guy but in a bad way. Totally love how it is filmed in different ways. Loved the fashion :) And it's just sooo funny crazy. All the characters were funny. Too bad that I can't see it again in the cinema. A good movie to see in the morning, afternoon, evening... well anytime. Totally love it.

The Pinkie 

This is a short movie (65 min.) by upcoming director Lisa Takeba. It's sweet, lovely and had a lot of crazy wtff moments. To be honest I didn't have high expectations of The Pinkie, after seeing the Mole Song. So I wasn't really dissappointed. It's funny, but I missed just a little sparkle. Well....hm, I must admit, I already was a bit tired when I went to see it. What I really like were the short animations. The Pinkie is a movie to see at a high tea girlie afternoon. But beware, the movie has a little "Oldboy" twist. After the movie, the director Lisa Takeba was invited to come up on stage at IFFR for a Q&A. I must say that the interviewer of IFFR was being rude to her when she answered a question in a short way (probably because of languagebarrier). You could say things on a nice friendly way, instead he chooses to be a Dutch d*ck. Whatever, I hope Lisa Takeba makes more movies, and well maybe we have an upcoming female version of Takeshi Kitano! :D 

Secretly Greatly

Yeah nice to see Park Ki-woong on big screen! Yup, I'm a dorama queen (he played in Full House and Me Too Flower). Back to Secretly Greatly. This is about a North Korean spy, Won Ryu-han who has a secret mission in a South Korean village. He's a hitman, but now he has to pretend as if he's a village idiot. The longer the spy stays there, the better he become friends with the people in the South Korean village. He's spying with two other collegues. But then the secret missions is ended. Now they're ordered commit suicide or kill each other, because all traces have to be erased. Secretly Greatly is a nice movie (maybe a bit too long). Nice to see the friendship between the spy and the villagers. Good to see on a Sunday afternoon.

Intruders

Again, I've seen a good suspence movie. Intruders is about Sang-Jin who has to finish his work (writing his screenplay). So Sang-Jin goes to a mountainious village to work quietly and peacefully on his screenplay. Hm, quietly? No. He meets a weird man and ex-con, who's sticking with him. Not for long. After Sang-Jin thinks he can work quietly, he meets a group of annoying youngsters. One day Sang-Jin finds the youngsters dead. Oeehh. Intruders is a thriller with black humour. It has an open ending, but that's not bothersome. The movie starts slow, but a good way to get to know Sang-Jin better. It didn't bored me one second. Great acting btw. One actress was so good. She played soo annoying, that I was hoping that Sang-Jin would slap her on her face (because she was slapping his face constantly. Poor Sang-Jin). Nice to watch Intruders on a girlie movie night. Loved it.