Director- Matsui Daigo.This film will be a great double feature with One Million Yen Girl. Though while One Million Yen Girl is about escaping one's life, Japanese Girls Never Die is about starting a new life free from the issues of one's past.The film is feministic and deals with several themes on issues faced by women. For example misogyny in the workforce.The film has two different storylines running side by side and is bound by a third one.The film title represents that the girls indeed never die but instead disappear. Such as the protagonist did after being left by the man she loved.Another storyline running side by side is of an overly energetic leach of a person who for some reason isn't leaving a duo who openly dislikes her. The duo paints the picture, of the protagonist, on walls using stencils. Their reason for choosing her missing photo was random and not well thought out.In the end, they get tired of her persistent nature and blatant disregard for their feelings and decide to ditch her once and for all. I agreed with their decision as she was getting on my nerves quite a lot as well.The story that binds these two is of a group of school-going girls going around beating up men and boys. They are very Sion Sonoesque.Their reason is that they want to even the balance. They are doing what they can to even out the misogyny prevalent in society using the only thing they know, violence.The film revolves around the theme of disappearance when losing what one deeply cares about, to a place where one is unknown and hence free.The ending was nice with the protagonist giving the idea to the girl from story two and meeting again as they depart for a new life. The school girl group getting caught was the only realistic way of ending their storyline while also showing us that society tries to extinguish the flames of equality.
Director- Matsui Daigo.This film will be a great double feature with One Million Yen Girl. Though while One Million Yen Girl is about escaping one's life, Japanese Girls Never Die is about starting a new life free from the issues of one's past.The film is feministic and deals with several themes on issues faced by women. For example misogyny in the workforce.The film has two different storylines running side by side and is bound by a third one.The film title represents that the girls indeed never die but instead disappear. Such as the protagonist did after being left by the man she loved.Another storyline running side by side is of an overly energetic leach of a person who for some reason isn't leaving a duo who openly dislikes her. The duo paints the picture, of the protagonist, on walls using stencils. Their reason for choosing her missing photo was random and not well thought out.In the end, they get tired of her persistent nature and blatant disregard for their feelings and decide to ditch her once and for all. I agreed with their decision as she was getting on my nerves quite a lot as well.The story that binds these two is of a group of school-going girls going around beating up men and boys. They are very Sion Sonoesque.Their reason is that they want to even the balance. They are doing what they can to even out the misogyny prevalent in society using the only thing they know, violence.The film revolves around the theme of disappearance when losing what one deeply cares about, to a place where one is unknown and hence free.The ending was nice with the protagonist giving the idea to the girl from story two and meeting again as they depart for a new life. The school girl group getting caught was the only realistic way of ending their storyline while also showing us that society tries to extinguish the flames of equality.
