Kakera: A Piece of Our Life

Featuring: Hikari Mitsushima, Eriko Nakamura & Ken Mitsuishi

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Based on the best-selling manga 'Love Vibes' by Erika Sakurazawa and featuring a soundtrack by James Iha, former guitarist of Smashing Pumpkins, the debut feature of Momoko Andô, one of the members of this year's festival Jury, is a delicately-nuanced portrait of two very different women.

Haru, a college student, is frustrated by the lack of any real spark between her and her slobbish and indifferent boyfriend, who only seems to be interested in her for sex. One day, while brooding over a cappuccino in a cafe, she catches the eye of Riko. Riko joins her table and the two strike up a conversation in which she explains her job as a 'medical artist', something slightly different from a prosthetics, in that rather than create body parts that attempt to emulate the function of those lost through accident and disease, her role is to cure the psychological traumas arising from the patient's physical deficiencies by balancing body and soul, creating parts that aesthetically make up for the loss.

While Haru might be physically intact, Riko sees in her a certain emotional wanting to which she might provide a cure, and the two begin an all-encompassing relationship that draws Haru away from her dissatisfying routine and into a new and more emotionally fulfilling area of her life.
ActorsHikari Mitsushima, Eriko Nakamura, Ken Mitsuishi, Tasuku Nagaoka, Rino Katase, Toshie Negishi, Kageki Shimoda & Masahiko Tsugawa
DirectorMomoko Andô
Certificate15 years and over
Year2009
ScreenWidescreen 16:9 Anamorphic
LanguagesJapanese - Dolby Digital (2.0) Stereo
SubtitlesEnglish
Duration1 hour and 47 minutes (approx)
RegionRegion 2 - Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players.

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 Getting Over It and Moving On

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Kakera is an interesting piece of cinema, like many Japanese movies of the 2000's the leading roles go to ladies, but this is perhaps a little more taboo than you'd normally see.
It's your basic love story set up but with a twist, not only does she dump the guy that's wrong for her but she moves onto a woman, but is she the right one for her?
The writing is contempory and stylish, it has a realness about it in the way its portrayed, and the acting fits this style of writing perfectly. The directing also helps the feel, it has a very real feel about it, almost as if it was something you were witnessing from inside the rooms.
The downfall to this movie is the timing, the beginning feels a little slow and for the most part will have you pondering, "where exactly is this going". But the story comes into its own nearer the halfway mark and makes for a good view.

Overall: Kakera is an interesting and though provoking movie, it's ultimately a story about heartbreak but isn't the kind that'll have you reaching for the hankies. It's an honest tale which will have you thinking about things in life. It's jam packed with metaphors so if you're willing to suck up all the info you might enjoy it even more.
I liked it a lot! Recommended

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