Tokyo International Film Festival

#1 House of Tolerance (2011, France)

Director: Bertrand Bonello

First, I simply enjoyed nudes !

Well, All these prostitutes had to be a fire in the dark.

It attracts men.

But what about inside of the fire?

There is no real fire there.

Men are playing in dream, created world. and so are all girls.

All struggle.

Last scene that one girl from this house is leaving seems she is releasing her mind to her new world.

She can live in real world from now on.

That was impressive.

You should look carefully at their faces.

No emotions in the house.

#2 Detachment (2012, United States)

Director: Tony Kaye

Stars: Adrien Brody

Lucy Liu

Sami Gayle

This one is about current situation in American education.

This film tells us how important all children feel love from their parents.

Teachers can understand troubles each student holds.

But most of time it requires "love".

When teachers refuse, it may let them kill themselves out of despair.

How can teachers face to them then?

#3 Albert Nobbs (2012, Unites States)

Director: Rodrigo Garcia

Stars: Mia Wasikowska

Aaron Johnson

Glenn Close

Hard times for ladies to live.

She died in the end, but by living as a man,

she could live with a wonderful dream.

She can say it was a good life.

#4 Trishna (2012, Netherlands)

#5 Corman's World (2011, United States)

A documentary film of Roger Corman.

I didn't know him before, but I realized he is a great man thorough this film.

God of making low cost film.

I'll try seeing his works.

#6 Bonsai (2011, France)

Time travel in one day

Back to the Future I, II, III (1985, 89, 90)

Since I caught a cold, I stayed at my room all day watching movies.

Needless to say this series is great !

I have watched it over and over again though.

Maybe it's impossible to see the world with time travel in real....

that cause too much trouble.

Yuki

Hello James !

East of Eden (1955)

Writer: John Steinbeck

Director: Elia Kazan

Stars: James Dean

Julie Harris

I fell in love with James Dean at first sight !!

It took almost one month to read original navel by John Steinbeck

which is so dynamic story covering 3 generations of two families.

This story is basically based on the story of Cain and Abel from Bible.

Both of Cain and Abel gave God Yahweh their presents one day.

Yahweh liked little sheep Abel gave, but didn't pay much attention to crop Cain gave.

Cain got mad at this, and he killed Abel.

Yahweh expelled Cain to east of eden.

The story is just simple like this.

John Steinbeck's East of Eden is telling us that

we cannot help but repeating things like this over generations.

This is about love.

Back to the film,

Elia Kazan had visualized last part of original nocel.

James Dean as Cal (stands for Cain) wants to be loved by his Father Adam,

but somehow his father likes Aron (Cal's twin brother) more than Cal.

Still, Cal tries to obtain father's love.

I want this novel is read by many people in the world.

It may let you dive into the world of this novel and you can think about meaning of our lives.

Yuki