Director: Masayuki Miyano. Review: Adam Wing. Based on Hideo Okuda’s collection of short stories, Lala Pipo (taken from the English phrase "a lot of people") is the debut feature from Masayuki Miyano, who worked on Tetsuya Nakashima’s Kamikaze Girls and Paco and the Magical Picture Book. Hiroki Narimiya headlines, alongside Yuri Nakamura, Mari Hamada, Tomoko Murakami, Takashi Yoshimura and Sarutoki Minagawa. Six characters, six stories, ninety minutes of comedy heaven. If you’re a fan of Nakashima’s quirky cinematic offerings, Lala Pipo should be right up your street. It bares all the hallmarks of a Tetsuya Nakashima picture, no great surprise really, he did write the screenplay after all. Colourful, comical, hypnotic and bizarre, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Nakashima directed it himself. Never a bad thing in my book, Masayuki Miyano has certainly chosen wisely, imitating one of the most exciting directors in the world today.
- 2/17/2010
- 24framespersecond.net
Lala Pipo the directorial debut of Masayuki Miyano is to get a UK theatrical release next month. Written by Tetsuya Nakashima (`Kamikaze Girls,' `Memories Of Matsuko') Lala takes a trawl through the gutters of the Japanese porn industry in the company of six very different characters whose tales overlap in unexpected ways. Based on a collection of short stories Okuda Hideo, the title originating from one character's mispronunciation of an American tourist's observation that Tokyo sure has `a lot of people'. Shot in the same vibrant, surreal style that will be familiar to fans of Tetsuya Nakashima's directorial works, Masayuki Miyano's debut feature off-beat and totally unpredictable romp through Tokyo's very own planet porno.
- 10/26/2009
- 24framespersecond.net
[Our thanks to Renzo Adler for the following review.]
If you described the plot of Lalapipo without mentioning the film’s jovial candy colored style, it would sound incredibly depressing—and I mean on Requiem for a Dream like scale (I guess Nobody Knows would be the better comparison since we’re talking Japanese films). Lalapipo, the directorial debut of Masayuki Miyano, is written by Kamikaze Girls scribe Tetsuya Nakashima and is based on the novel by Hideo Okuda. The film deals with the oft lampooned, speculated, and analyzed subject of sexuality in contemporary Tokyo. Unlike films like Love & Pop or Bounce Kogals, Lalapipo is vibrant, full of humor, and is generally light hearted for the most part; yet still manages to sneak in some heavy scenes and deals with themes like alienation, sexual de-sensitization, violence, and then some.
If you described the plot of Lalapipo without mentioning the film’s jovial candy colored style, it would sound incredibly depressing—and I mean on Requiem for a Dream like scale (I guess Nobody Knows would be the better comparison since we’re talking Japanese films). Lalapipo, the directorial debut of Masayuki Miyano, is written by Kamikaze Girls scribe Tetsuya Nakashima and is based on the novel by Hideo Okuda. The film deals with the oft lampooned, speculated, and analyzed subject of sexuality in contemporary Tokyo. Unlike films like Love & Pop or Bounce Kogals, Lalapipo is vibrant, full of humor, and is generally light hearted for the most part; yet still manages to sneak in some heavy scenes and deals with themes like alienation, sexual de-sensitization, violence, and then some.
- 6/27/2009
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
Good news for fans of Asian cult cinema with news out that the UK’s Third Window Films have bought rights to Miki Satoshi’s Instant Numa and Lalapipo, from director Masayuki Miyano, from a script from Kamikaze Girls director Tetsuya Nakashima. I had to duck out early from Satoshi’s Numa earlier this week in Cannes but what I saw was very fun and this will definitely be finding it’s way on to my shelf ...
- 5/19/2009
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
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