During the Edo period, gay lovers Yaji and Kita decide to run away from stuffy old Edo and head for Ise. Don't have an account? Yumi Shimizu as Oyuki. See all Audience reviews. The contradiction of the modernity of cinema and the antiquity of the setting is embraced and used to colour the film. Tasuku Emoto as Non-No. Please enter your email address and we will email you a new password. 
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With the Midnihht Smith style yukata, model tanks, and modern pharmaceuticals, Yaji and Kita plays on the absurdity of nostalgia for an age that has no survivors. Critiques on the music industry and stardom, however broad and unsubtle, are certainly things Nagase is qualified to portray. Abominable Triumphs over Lackluster Competition. Log in with Facebook. Mailing list Stay up to date with the latest and best in Japanese cinema.
Yaji & Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims
The contradiction of the modernity of cinema and the antiquity of the setting is embraced and used to colour the film. Tomoya Nagase as Yaji. When a flamboyant but down-on-their-luck pair of Edo-period samurai blast off onto the open roads to do battle with heroin addiction and ponder the true meaning of pilgirms at the shrine of Ise, a blip in reality finds them thrust into a world where fantasy takes the place of the everyday, and the past merges with the present with disorienting yaij.
Being all too obvious is something which unfortunately hurts this film, as is being all too long. The Midnight Pilgrims is a trip--a mashup of aesthetic sensibilities and attitudes old and new. Please enter your email address and we will email you a new mivnight.
If there is a required point to be made about duality, couples and the number two, this film makes it like an episode of Sesame Street.
Be the first to hear about our new reviews, exclusive interviews and features. From the warped mind of Zebraman writer Kankuro Kudo yahi a hallucinogenic tale of gay love in a world where nothing is as it seems.
Anx the Walking Dead: Yaji's protracted journey through the underworld seems suitably never-ending, but that is perhaps not the best material for comedy. Since no issues have been taken at all seriously up until this point, the angst that is ladled on becomes increasingly unwelcome and jars with the performances, especially Nagase's over the top shouting.
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In another, a fickle fan club of schoolgirls' sudden and extreme devotion to Yaji leads to their untimely death. Two best friends, homosexual and heterosexual lovers, reality and fiction, husbands and wives, fathers and sons, fans and idols, dependent and depended upon, alive and dead, pilgeims even two-man manzai comedy acts are all touched upon here.
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As the credits roll, practically everything that might have endeared you to the movie in the first half has been completely beaten out of you by the end of the second. Perhaps most surprising for the directorial debut of a writer, the actual plot of Yaji and Kita is mostly quite scant. P was a hip-hop styled gang drama which further raised the profile of future Go and Ping Pong star Yosuke Kubozuka, along with Tomoya Nagase.
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Based on a more revisionist modern manga version rather than the older material, the new cinematic adaptation takes a sharp departure from what those familiar with past incarnations may be expecting.
As such, time is not a strict one-way street. Tomomitsu Yamaguchi as Ochin.
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