While there will be spectators’ who will have no trouble in letting themselves float on the film’s ‘stormy’ emotional flow from start to finish, the over-reliance on music in the second half of the film creates a melodramatic whirlpool that will leave many spectators emotionally stranded.
Tag: Jun Shison
Teiichi: Battle of Supreme High (2017) Review [Fantasia Film Festival]
“A pleasant and often funny ride exploring high-school life in the showa era, but, unfortunately, it doesn’t raise above the standard affair and the comedy, as over-acting so typically of Japanese comedy is present, something of an acquired taste.”