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Shoujyo: The Adolescent

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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.
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What The Critics Said
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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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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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