Saturday, July 7, 2012

Movie: Crime or Punishment?!?

Plot: Riko Narumi plays an unpopular idol who in an attempt to boost her faltering career becomes police chief for a day. During the day a robbery occurs at a convenience store and instead of letting a real police chief deal with the robbery she decides to take the matter into her own hands.
Credit: AsianWiki

Cast: Narumi Riko, Nagayama Kento, Inuyama Inuko, Okura Koji, Okina Megumi, Ando Sakura

Comments: The plot description is more or less correct.  Narumi Riko's character is unpopular, but I wouldn't go far to say she was an idol. Gravure model, even stepping up to AV model would be correct.  She had no choice but to become the police chief for the day because of a petty crime she committed and she had to take up the position because all the other popular models were busy.

This was one of the weirdest movies I've watched, but the set-up was so brilliant.  It's just all the scenes itself are so random and weird.  Scenes didn't make sense on their own... well no I can't really say that.  They... how do i put this.  They're typical scenes (at home, at the store, etc) but the things they were doing there were pretty weird/crazy.

The movie starts off with this guy going to the convenience store and the girl that works there mistakens him for one of her regular customers and hands him random items.  He heads off to do whatever it is he needs to do, witnesses a murder, and as he's about to call for help he gets run over by some guy driving a huge truck or bus. i wanna say Winnebago (do you all know what that is? ... err RV? LOL).  Scene changes..

Ok.. weird... what am i watching? The start of the movie really sets up for the rest of the movie, which is based off of that murder.  I'm not gonna go too deep into each scene but I'll go ahead and describe what had happened.
- Narumi's character, Ayame, gets arrested for stealing a magazine that she was in. She didnt understand why her picture was upside down and had a mark on her face.  She was gonna buy it but stole it since she lost her wallet.
- Ayame gets caught, and is stuck playing police chief for the day.  She encounters her old love.
We see a flashback of their relationship.  Apparently he had killed about 8 women and one attempted murder on Ayame.  She always forgave him but he continued to do so (WTF?).
- A couple and one of their "friends" planned for a burglary of the convenience store that we saw in the beginning of the movie. Ended up kidnapping Ayame's rival, who is a very popular model. and their manager who tags along to scold her, but ends up getting kidnapped as well.
- Ayame realizes something and does take the opportunity to do her duty as a police chief and arrests all the people that gave her bullsh--
- Ayame comes to the rescue and gets the kidnappers/robbers arrested. Even frees her rival and manager.  Her love wanted to confess all his murders, but she said no, but he ends up getting arrested anyways.

The set up of the movie was amazing.  All of these scenes (with the exception of the flashback) happened over the course of ONE day.  All the scenes actually fit together.  Everytime a new scene came on, it gave a new detail that wasn't scene beforehand which explained why certain things had happened.  Everyone's connected in some way.  I love these kind of stories.  You get to see everyones point of view and why certain events happened.

What made this weird were how the stories progressed.  When the couple was in their room, and it was mentioned their walls were paper thin, they heard their neighbors having what they thought was sex.  Turns out it was Nakayama's character trying to kill his girlfriend.   Which was what the murder that had started the whole movie.  The bus/RV/truck that killed the man had some weirdos driving it which didnt make sense.. even after the movie ended it didnt make sense but it fit into the story for some reason..

All these things, made this movie hilarious to watch.  I want to give this a 7 out of 10.  It's funny, the story moved well, if you like weird things, this is a movie to watch, slight romance, little nudity (which was hilarious).  All in all i think its a pretty good movie.

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