Back when the NYAFF/Japan Cuts ’11 was going on, I had posted a review for Yoshimasa Ishibashi’s new film, Milocrorze: A Love Story. The movie was like nothing I had ever seen before, a comedy with bright colors, three wacky stories, and some crazy pop art visuals. The movie follows three different ‘love’ stories with the all three main characters played by Takayuki Yamada (13 Assassins).
In case you didn’t know, I absolutely loved this Japanese comedy and have been awaiting the day that a trailer would be released so that I could show you how wacky this film actually looks. Unfortunately, there are no English subtitles for the text in the trailer but at least you’ll get an idea of how the film looks. I’ve provided the synopsis from the NYAFF below so you can figure out what the actual story is about.
Now click play and brace yourself for the most perplexing trailer you’ll ever watch.
Synopsis: When platinum redhead Ovreneli Vreneligare was just a little boy, he fell in love in the park. Sharing a juice box with the stunningly gorgeous Milocrorze, he took her home to his cat, Verandola Gorgonzola, and made her his girlfriend, until fickle beauty abandoned him, and he covered the hole in his heart with a pot lid he found lying on the ground. This is only the beginning of his story but it’s not the end of his heartbreak. MILOCRORZE: A LOVE STORY is a candy-flavored anthology of hopeless l’amour, and it has many victims.
Cut to: Besson Kumagai, the worst and most famous youth counselor in the world, with a ridiculous moptop ‘do and a propensity towards doing the “Thriller” dance. His pro-tips include tweaking a lady’s nipples on the first date. “I give great advice to wimpy assholes,” he snarls, spitting out chauvinistic tirades about “the enemy” (read: women) and filtering all potential interaction through a paranoid male gaze as he and his girltoys prance through vivid macho fantasies. Then it’s on to lovelorn swordsman Tamon, trapped in a dystopic samurai hellscape, searching for his lost soulmate in a futuristic geisha house. Milocrorze herself is in neither of these stories, yet she is in all of them. She is the joke, she is the loss, she is the sadness and anger at the heart of the world.
Thanks to Twitch for the heads up on the trailer
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