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Futari

Us Two
Chizuko's Younger Sister

Japan 1991
produced by
Kuniyoshi Kawashima, Kyoko Obayashi, Shuji Tanuma for NHK Enterprises, PSC Company/Shochiku
directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi
starring Hikari Ishida, Tomoko Nakajima, Ittoku Kishibe, Sumiko Fuji, Toshinori Omi, Chika Shibayama, Yuri Nakae, Wakako Shimazaki, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Naoto Takenaka, Bengaru, Yoshitaka Zushi, Hitoshi Omae, Kiminobu Okumura, Yasufumi GHayashi, Noriko Nichiyama, Hiromi Oda, Etsuko Nami, Yumiko Fujita, Wakaba Irie, Keiko Masuda
screenplay by Chiho Katsura, based on the novel by Jiro Akagawa, music by Joe Hisaishi

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Chizuko (Tomoko Nakajima) has always been the perfect girl while her younger sister Mika (Hikari Ishida) has always been considered a bit slow and clumsy and unable to live up to her sister's high standards. But then Chizuko dies, and suddenly it's up to Mika to live up to everybody's expectations - which is hard inasmuch as everybody compares her to Chizuko. However, Mika is not alone, the spirit of Chizuko is always with her, and lends a helping hand in everything, be it a piano concert, a relay race at school, or even Mika's lovelife - oddly enough, she's in love with a guy (Toshinori Omi) who has first fallen for Chizuko.

Mika's parents (Ittoku Kishibe, Sumiko Fuji) meanwhile find it far more difficult to handle Chizuko's death, and mother soon retreats into a dellusional state while dad uses his job as an excuse to move to another town, where he soon finds himself a girlfriend. When mum learns about his affair, her condition worsens and she has to be sent to an asylum, leaving Mika all alone at their home. But Mika grows with the experience, and even when Chizuko's spirit finally leaves her for good, she's looking to a bright future, as she knows Chizuko will always be in her heart ...

 

Rather episodic blend of ghoststory and feelgood film, in which all characters (especially women) repeatedly hug each other. Now this is not bad in itself, unfortunately though, Futari makes very little out of its basic premise, and it fails to tie up its many episodes to a stringent basic plot, so the whole plotline seems to wander around aimlessly instead of going anywhere in particular. Thus, after 2 and a half hours the film comes to an end at a rather deliberate point in the narrative, and the story's resolution sounds equally deliberate. That all said, the film isn't all bad, it's competently and subtly directed, well acted and the lack of special effects - to spice up the ghost-aspects of the story - is actually a good thing. The whole thing just isn't worth 150  minutes of your life, believe me!

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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