So, despite being an Aoi Yuu fan, I’ve never actually seen any of her movies except Honey and Clover, in which she doesn’t say much and acts super cute. (Not that I have any problem with that.)
I saw Hula Girls on the ride back from Taiwan, which was pretty good. Some thoughts on the movie:
- Ohmigawd Yuu-san is so fucking cute. This is the main idea of the movie, I think.
- Hula Girls is apparently a past-meets-present conflict movie. I can see why they’re culturally significant in Japan, which retains many of its traditional culture but almost in separate boxes with its contemporary one. It’s a far more heterogeneous mixture than in many places, I think.
- Yuu-san in Hula outfit = awesome.
- What’s with the everyone run to the train platform bullcrap screaming that these movies love to put in? I wanted to slap the director because I think the scenes would have been far more moving without the 10 minutes of “SENSEI!!! SENSEI!!!” Like Funnce said, you just change the music and suddenly it’s one of those zombie movies.
- Omigawd Yuu-san is so fucking cute. And while I’m on that thought, this.
- I think this movie is one of the reasons why Aoi Yuu is considered one of the top actresses of Japan. She has the ability to play any role convincingly, from the meek Hagu to an almost “country bumpkin” girl complete with the Northeastern accent. You almost can’t believe that it is the same person in two films. By the way, Yuu-san herself supposedly is “shy” in real life.
- Other than that the movie seemed pretty good in general. But I doubt I would have watched it if it didn’t have Aoi Yuu in it. lol
