Originalname:
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パラダイス・キス | Paradaisu Kisu
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Also known as:
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Release Date:
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4. June 2011
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Director:
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Takehiko Shinjo
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Writer:
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Ai Yazawa (Manga), Kenji Bando
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Producer:
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Takero Hisamatsu, Toshiaki Muramatsu, Takeshi Onoda, Hiroaki Kitano, Toshiya Nomura
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Cast:
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Keiko Kitagawa, Osamu Mukai, Yusuke Yamamoto, Shunji Igarashi, Kento Kaku, Aya Omasa
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Plot
So we start
with a... HOLY SHIT, IS THAT WARNER BROS.?!
Anyway,
Yukari is a girl that tried to please her mother her whole life and doesn’t
have any self-confidence. She has a love interest, Hiroyuki Takumori, played by
Yusuke Yamamoto (He is our new sweetheart get used to him)
Well,
destiny strikes as she’s being stalked by a punk called Arashi (No. Not the
band.) She faints and wakes up in a room with Arashi, a cute girl, Miwako, and
a transvestite, Isabella, who ask if she could be a model for their graduation fashion
show. But she doesn’t have any interest since she has to study for the finals.
When George, the designer, arrives, she takes her leave.
George
shows up in her school the next morning and make her skip class because he
wants her to get a new haircut as an “apology”.
Well, at
least Hiroyuki likes the new haircut, as he states in the next morning, when
Isabella appears and takes her away to take her measurements. Which are not
needed because Yukari turns out to be his muse.
Yukari
decides to move out because she can’t cope with her mother anymore and moves in
with George.
He shows
her his “special room” (Why are you laughing? It’s just a room with clothes he sewed
himself...)
One day
Yukari discovers that this project will be
their last as “Paradise Kiss” as George will go to Paris after that, and
so the day of the fashion show arrives.
There are
some problems and Yukari decides that she wants to give hundred percent for
George on the catwalk which she does and ends up getting a lot applause for it.
And George kisses her.
So he
leaves for Paris without saying goodbye and some time after he sends a package
with a key and an address.
She goes
there and finds all those clothes which
were in his precious room and cries.
THE END. I
would’ve loved to see the 3 years after, but o well... you shouldn’t force your
luck!
... Yeah
okay, it isn’t finished! Well, Yukari is angry and wants to see him and in NY
she finds out he has designed clothes for a musical and they end up meeting his
apartment and kiss. SCREW THIS!
Conclusion
I love this
movie (not like my sister). I think the ending was great and the whole plot was
well paced. I mean everything went so smoothly. In other asian movies there
were many dialogue scenes and things felt rushed. Not with this one. Okay, some
things were cut out like the conflict with the mother. Demochild was really
disappointed because in the Manga and the Anime this was very important. But
for me, for the fact that it’s a movie, it wasn’t such a waste. And of course
there is the thing with the ending. I liked it. I liked it a lot. I thought it
was deserved. But Demochild hated it. For her the Anime Ending was the best. No
pairing, just pure loneliness and an open ending. Yeah, it would be interesting
but it’s such a shoujo/women movie. It’s a must to have a happy ending. Okay,
it would be refreshing. But I have to say, that moment which Demochild chose
for the ending (it’s the crying in the clothes room) would also have been a
great ending.
I loved the cast, too. They played really good. But I was surprised the most about Shunji Igarashi, our Nyah-chan from Rookies. I didn't recognize him xD
Ah, and not to forget Aya Omasa, who play the main role in Perfect Girl Evolution. Here she played a bright, naive, with a high voiced girl.
I loved the cast, too. They played really good. But I was surprised the most about Shunji Igarashi, our Nyah-chan from Rookies. I didn't recognize him xD
Ah, and not to forget Aya Omasa, who play the main role in Perfect Girl Evolution. Here she played a bright, naive, with a high voiced girl.
And one
thing, totally out off plot: What’s wrong with the kissing in this movie? After
the runway she looks like she is being raped. And then The Aragorn Kiss at the
end xD For all who know LOTR Trilogy. Watch the last movie again and focus on
how Aragorn prepares to kiss Arwen. It’s really funny. And this last kiss in this
movie reminded somehow of it. How George takes a deep breath and... yeah. You
know what follows ^^
Finally, I
would like to say one of our personal favourites and we totally recommend it.
We even recommend to buy it. It’s really worth its money.
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