Big Bang Love Juvenile A (2006)

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Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (english subs hard encoded)
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Formal Title: Big Bang Love, Juvenile A, 4600 million year Love, is a 2006 film directed by Takashi Miike.

Plot
An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than storytelling, the story follows two detectives trying to uncover the case. Homosexual tension and explosive violence drives the story which delivers some weird and fascinating visuals.

Cast: Ryuhei Matsuda as Jun, Masanobu Ando as Shiro , Shunsuke Kubozuka, Kiyohiko Shibukawa , Jo Kanamori, Kenichi Endo, Renji Ishibashi, Ryo Ishibashi, ShirA Kazuki, Jai West

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Beautiful colours and highly aesthetical surreal appearance also dominate the latest film of Miike Takashi, though his Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (46 oku nen no koi, 2006) takes a completely different pace and direction. The story of this film its original Japanese title translates as The Love of 4600 Million Years, follows an emotional homoerotic relationship between two juvenile prisoners. Timid Yun (Matsuda Ryuhei) and violent Shiro (Ando Masanobu) happened to become imprisoned on the same day for the same reason brutal murders.

At the beginning of the film we are faced with a prisoner strangling another one. While the victim is taking his last breath, the assailant cries... Its Yun. The name of the one lying dead on the floor is Shiro. Yet we soon realize that what seems to be an obvious act of murder is just a consequence of a much more complex past, which is revealed in a story that meanders from the present to the past, and back, to possible futures. A series of flashbacks and fragments of Yun and Shiros memories are mixed with their yearnings, anxieties and tensions in the world they are imprisoned in. In the end, detectives solve the murder of Shiro, but the real resolution remains unspoken and hidden in Yuns and Shiros relationship. Miike offers no easy way to understand his two main protagonists, yet a few times he hints that child abuse behind may be the real crime to condemn.

The prison, shown in a subtle ochre-yellow atmosphere, is the centre stage of this existentialist mystery in a quite literal sense, since many of the scenes strongly resemble a theatre play. But the prison also offers a strong metaphor of our modern life as Miike reminds us in the final scenes. Everyone is a voluntary prisoner of the everyday.

This is a Miike Takashi film. Its difficult to remain indifferent to it.