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Shoujyo: The Adolescent

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Shoujyo: The Adolescent reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Drama  |  Foreign  |  Romance

Written by: Katsuhiko Manabe
Izuru Narushima
Mikihiko Renjo (short story)

Directed by: Eiji Okuda

Release Date:
Theatrical: September 30, 2005

Running Time: 132 minutes, Color

Origin: Japan

Language(s): Japanese (with English subtitles)

Summary

RATING: Not Rated

Starring Eiji Okuda, Mayu Ozawa, Akira Shoji, Mari Natsuki, and Hideo Murota

Japanese character actor Eiji Okuda makes his directorial debut with this romantic drama adapted from a book by Mikihiko Renjyo.

What The Critics Said

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75

San Francisco Chronicle G. Allen Johnson

An interesting film, and while it is not entirely successful (and at times most puzzling), it achieves a certain poignancy.

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70

LA Weekly Mark Olsen

Okuda creates that slightly surreal atmosphere of ghost-town emptiness that will be familiar to fans of Takeshi Miike, but he infuses it with a romantic's sense of deep yearning.

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60

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

Decidedly uneven yet intriguing.

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60

Village Voice Drew Tillman

Although the movie drags, Okuda (who also directed) makes for a gloriously bad lieutenant, while Ozawa is enjoyably discomfiting in her unblushing carnality.

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50

The Onion (A.V. Club) Tasha Robinson

The problem is that both as a director and as an actor, Okuda never makes a particularly convincing case either for sex or for deeper commitment as a road away from the abyss.

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50

The New York Times Lawrence Van Gelder

The film, at least 20 minutes too long, has too many competing story lines to succeed as more than an oddball mood piece.

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50

New York Post V.A. Musetto

Okuda's debut behind the camera, Shoujyo, is a dirty old man's delight: schoolgirls galore in short skirts or, in Yoko's case, nothing at all. That may be enough for some viewers, but not for those who insist on a story that gives substance to its characters.

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50

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

Suicide, child molestation, corruption, insanity and the faintest implication of incest are wound around the film's suggestion that the cure for modern-day alienation and anomie lies in embracing traditional Japanese culture, like ritual tattooing.

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What Our Users Said

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