Confusing Japanese fare

Katie Phillips January 25

Well I honestly was pretty lost for this movie, but I usually am with foreign films. I tried to follow what was going on, but the more I tried the harder it got. Basically it's about a 35 year old woman floating through life and she's a manic-depressive. She goes from high to low and they are extreme. She goes from guy to guy and even goes around with this pervert. She screwed around with this politician who has erectile dysfunction and well as her cousin who left his wife and his lover left him. The story is actually quite boring because it's just the everyday life of the main female character. The part I loved best is how many pictures she took and the she posted them on the internet. That is how she came across a depressed gang member and he had been looking for. She happened to take a picture of a tire park and he saw it. He had apparently went there as a kid and wanted to make sure it was real. Strange? But she is a really charming girl. She's funny and funny, she just has her really low moments. I have to say that the relationship between her and her cousin was kind of strange. I mean, it is sexual and that's not right. But I couldn't figure out if that was her real cousin or not. She has a tendency to lie a little bit, especially about how her parents died. She told everyone they died in an earthquake when it was really a fire. And since her parents died she's lost her mind. I don't really understand the film, but by the end she's alone and her cousin had left to go to his wife and kid, and her pervert friend had a girlfriend and so did her politician. Then as she is about to go visit her cousin, her uncle called and said he drove his car off the pier after signing divorce papers. Lovely story. It doesn't go anywhere really and it's just a lot like life. (Sounds great to me! -Ed.)