Memories of Matsuko

An aimless twenty-year old drowning himself in booze after a recent break-up begins to come around while piecing together the life of the aunt he never knew he had in director Tetsuya Nakashima's adaptation of Muneki Yamada's original novel. Unable to deal with his latest break-up, Sho Kawajiri ...more

Tetsuya Nakashima follows up his exuberant Kamikaze Girls with this brilliantly executed musical tearjerker, which won star Miki Nakatani (Chaos) a slew of well-deserved acting awards in Japan, and which received the Audience Award at Subway Cinema's 2007 New York Asian Film Festival, where it had its North American premiere. While its subject matter may evoke the abused but dignified women of Mikio Naruse and Kenji Mizoguchi, the style of Memories of Matsuko combines the luridly hued melodrama ...more