ラスト・フレンズ
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Mizuki NishizakaDrehbuch:
浅野妙子Musik:
井筒昭雄Besetzung:
Asami Mizukawa, 長澤まさみ, Ryo Nishikido, Juri Ueno, Eita Nagayama, 田中哲司, Shigenori Yamazaki, Aki NishiharaInhalte(1)
Last Friends tackles issues that afflict the current generation. Michiru's mother has brought a man back to their home and she is bullied at her workplace where she works as a beauty parlour assistant. She starts cohabiting with her boyfriend, a good young man who works at the Child Welfare Division and the only person who can give her emotional support, but ends up the victim of domestic violence and becomes fearful of love. The boyishly charming Ruka was a classmate of Michiru's in junior high school. She has performed brilliantly as a motocross racer and aims to win the national championship, but as the story progresses, a deep worry that she can neither confide in her parents or close friends grows evident. Takeru is a hair and makeup artist acquainted with Ruka. He is a good confidant to females due to his kindness and perceptiveness, and finds himself attracted to Ruka but has a phobia of sex as a result of a past trauma. The three of them become house mates and through their associations with others, gain the capacity to be positive about life. (Verleiher-Text)
(mehr)Kritiken (1)
Well that was some drama! Nope, I didn't feel for either of them. I just couldn't get into it. I mean, they were laughable. A loser finds another loser, they suffer because of bullshit, and society is bad and life is cruel? LOL. I guess I'll be the only critic of this cold emotional blackmail written by twenty-somethings with no childhood life experience. For however hard the writers tried to be realistic, reality slipped through their fingers. Some may find me callous for condemning and mocking the suffering of the poor people in this series, but... this love polygon, where it ends with the death of one of the people involved and the ending is cut like an American romance, has turned me off for a while from other "serious" Japanese series that feature human tragedy. The characters are so stupid they should be taken out and shot. Well, except for Takeru, he's the only one who sort of pulled it off (but I guess he was pretty deep in the red if no one was going to his bar except the main characters and their extras, eh?). I just didn't like it, and I don't even feel like recommending this piece of crap to anyone. You know, half of their problems could have been handled by the police, am I right? And the hospital won't notice that it's domestic violence because it looks exactly the same as if you hit yourself on the corner of a table, right? Got a psychological problem? Go see a specialist (thankfully Ruka figured that one out). Just remember that your friends will eventually understand and love you to the very end because... ah, who gives a fuck. I walked a dinosaur.
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