Memories of Matsuko

2006 [JAPANESE]

Action / Comedy / Drama / Musical / Mystery

17
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 93% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 93% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.8/10 10 9436 9.4K

musical japanese film

Plot summary

While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces together the crucial events that sank Matsuko's life into a despairing tragedy.

Director

Tetsuya Nakashima Photo
Tetsuya Nakashima

Top cast

Yoshiaki Yanagida Photo
Yoshiaki Yanagida
Yorie Yamashita Photo
Yorie Yamashita as Prisoner B
Akira Emoto Photo
Akira Emoto as Kôzô Kawajiri
Hiroshi Yamamoto Photo
Hiroshi Yamamoto as Detective B
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1.17 GB
1280*714
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles jp  
23.976 fps
2 hr 10 min
Seeds 6
2.4 GB
1920*1072
Japanese 5.1
NR
Subtitles jp  
23.976 fps
2 hr 10 min
Seeds 19

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by kityujonatha 8 / 10

A great tragedy with a charming comical outlook

The movie is really wonderful and joyful. The package is really wonderful. As the female lives from 50's up to now, director of this film manage to dissolve a lot of pop culture stuffs, like MTV, TV etc into a fancy comical world. I am sure there would be only Japanese who can create such world.But what i admire most is he do not forget the story he want to tell. The story actually is a adaption from a original novel which depict a tragic life of a woman. The film, though have a comedy outlook, it is a typical tragic story. The director manages to find a new way to retell the story in a sense which youngster would feel related.And the story itself is great because it tells us what is so called life. ie ridiculous, unpredictable, etc. and how a woman face her life with constant hope of simply getting better.The story is a typical tragedy in a Greek kind of style. Though it may contain some preaching scene, but u are free to take it or leave, as the life of the woman is open to judge.
Reviewed by kityujonatha 8 / 10

A great tragedy with a charming comical outlook

The movie is really wonderful and joyful. The package is really wonderful. As the female lives from 50's up to now, director of this film manage to dissolve a lot of pop culture stuffs, like MTV, TV etc into a fancy comical world. I am sure there would be only Japanese who can create such world.But what i admire most is he do not forget the story he want to tell. The story actually is a adaption from a original novel which depict a tragic life of a woman. The film, though have a comedy outlook, it is a typical tragic story. The director manages to find a new way to retell the story in a sense which youngster would feel related.And the story itself is great because it tells us what is so called life. ie ridiculous, unpredictable, etc. and how a woman face her life with constant hope of simply getting better.The story is a typical tragedy in a Greek kind of style. Though it may contain some preaching scene, but u are free to take it or leave, as the life of the woman is open to judge.
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