Sunday, August 03, 2008

Kagen no Tsuki (Last Quarter)


Kagen no Tsuki (下弦の月~ラスト・クォーター) is a movie based on a manga starring HYDE, Chiaki Kuriyama, and Ayumi Ito. The summary taken from IMDB is as follows:
Do you believe in love after death? On the eve of her 19th birthday, Mizuki (Kuriyama) doesn't have a lot to celebrate about. Her mother recently committed suicide, her stepfamily bothers her, her boyfriend has been cheating on her and her best friend has betrayed her. Hurt and disillusioned, Mizuki runs from everything and is drawn by some unknown force to a dilapidated estate. Deep within the house Mizuki discovers the mysterious Adam (Hyde), playing a hauntingly familiar melody on the guitar. Melancholy and full of secrets, it seems that Adam, and the house, have a strange, irresistible link to Mizuki. Can Mizuki's boyfriend and a couple of well-meaning schoolchildren uncover the secret of what happened 19 years ago and free Mizuki before the last quarter of the moon falls?
It's actually the second Asian movie I've ever watched - and I watched it without subtitles. It's part mystery, part drama, part romance, part supernatural. It's nice and even without subs, you can get it. It's 112 minutes long.

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