Tsigoineruwaizen
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Writer: Yôzô Tanaka
Based on: Hyakken Uchida‘s novel Sarasāte no ban
Cast: Yoshio Harada, Naoko Ôtani, Toshiya Fujita, Michiyo Ohkusu, Kisako Makishi

Plot:
Aochi (Toshiya Fujita) goes on vacation where he meets his old colleague Nakasago (Yoshio Harada). They decide to party together and meet the young geisha Koine (Naoko Ôtani) who recently lost her brother. 6 months later, Nakasago gets married to Sono, a woman who looks just like Koine. But Nakasago is not the guy to stay at home. Soon the two men find themselves intrigued by their respective wives.

Tsigoineruwaizen is so not my kind of movie. It’s like a David Lynch film, only without anything that draws you in and keeps you interested. I probably would have walked out of the cinema after an hour or so, if I hadn’t been sitting in the middle of the row. Instead I just slept.

The movie was just to weird for my taste. Or the wrong kind of weird. It had funny moments but mostly it was just puzzling and boring. Oh so boring. The pacing was just way too slow. You c0uld tell that this was deliberate and that Suzuki wanted to have it that way but it really didn’t work for me.

What was missing for me was something to tag on, something that would pull me through the story or at least would make me want to try and follow. But there was never enough tension or interest for that to happen.

At some point I had just lost track of what was happening because I just didn’t care and because I didn’t care, after that point I didn’t even try to keep up.

And that even though Nakasago was very hot in a very assholish way, which is usually enough to keep me at least a bit intersted. But not here. The only real effect the movie had on me was that I got really hungry. The people in it are just eating all the time and they eat stuff that looks delicious.

Summarising: So not for me.