Persona
- Fundamentals, reception.
- Japanese live action feature length film, 2008, NR, SciFi, action.
- IMDB: 6.8/10.0 from 20 audience ratings. Spoken language is in Japanese. Subtitles in English.
- Rotten Tomatoes: not even a stub web page.
- Netflix: 2.4/5.0 from 3,858 audience ratings.
- Written and directed by: Tatsuro Kashihara.
- Starring: Mami Yamasaki as Hiyori, Masato Hagiwara as Koichiro Kiba, Sawa Suzuki as Sayoko Kiba.
- Setup and Plot
- Hiyori is the subject of experiments that look more like torture than anything else. She escapes from the lab early on, and tumbles across the young doctor Koichiro. A squad of men show up and hustle Hiyori into a van.
- Koichiro's wife Sayoko tells him she is going on a business trip. As it turns out, she works for LIS, which is doing the experiments on Hiyori. These experiments involve a mental resonance which allows for a bit of personality transference.
- Yeah, sure, right, everyday. Perhaps one should keep going if one can still suspend disbelief.
- Hirori escapes again, this time with some of Sayoko's personality. She seeks out Koichiro, her most trusted ally.
- It is no surprise that they are soon on the run. There is a bit of fighting action involved. Eventually, they have to go back and fix things up with the sleeping Sayako.
- Will our heroes accomplish all their goals?
- Conclusions
- One line summary: Poorly made Japanese export that is slow, boring, non-engaging.
- One star of five.
- Scores
- Cinematography: 2/10 Poor, VHS quality or worse. Grainy, pixelated images, washed out appearance, camera shake.
- Sound: 6/10 The incidental music sucks rocks.
- Acting: 2/10 There was acting? Poor fight choreography.
- Screenplay: 2/10 Enough of the girl fighter PC nonsense. Very little story spread over 84 minutes.
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