Kevin Collins’s review published on Letterboxd:
Film #19 of the "Scavenger Hunt" Challenge!
Task #4: A film that is 3 or more hours long!
letterboxd.com/kcoll001/list/scavenger-hunt/
"Who cares about the standards of normal people?"
A beautifully unorthodox, brilliantly written, confidently stylized, and thoroughly engaging four-hour romantic epic that runs the gamut of comedy, action, horror, and drama. I’d love to see the full six-hour version if it ever becomes available. I imagine that the longer version does a better job fleshing out some the threads that were quickly dismissed or resolved incompletely (Yu’s dad & Yoko’s mentor, Koike’s story and sudden departure). As a high point, despite being openly antagonistic toward religion, the film delivers a powerful recitation of I Corinthians 13. Left me with goose bumps. Highly recommended.
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