Looking at the wikipedia page for this movie, I saw this: "Kitano said in 2003 (while in production for Zatoichi), that Getting Any? Was one of his three favourite movies among the ten he had directed by that time. According to him, this work was the basis for many of the movies that followed, including the acclaimed Hana-bi, as it features all his recurrent themes plus its shares of violence and sorrow."
"That sounds really promising!" I thought to myself. Every other film by Kitano I had seen by now had a very dark and surreal sense of humor buried under the drama and seriousness of his yakuza stories, and I always found those moments really funny, so a full movie dedicated to his jokes sounded great.
This is probably the worst movie I've seen in my life. I feel like I just got pranked by Kitano. The wikipedia quote was the set up of the joke, and the movie itself is the punchline. A punchline that lasted for two hours as I stared at the screen in disbelief, asking myself how could this be the work of the same man who made Sonatine.
This is probably the worst movie I've seen in my life. I feel like I just got pranked by Kitano. The wikipedia quote was the set up of the joke, and the movie itself is the punchline. A punchline that lasted for two hours as I stared at the screen in disbelief, asking myself how could this be the work of the same man who made Sonatine.