Collage of our Life

This movie is like no movie I have seen. It is one of the only movies I have ever seen that DISERVES to use computer animation, and when it does it does it discretely, and in a purely metaphorical sense.

The movie starts out with him (Ryuhei Matsuda) explaining to an American on the phone why he has a woman’s name. It then goes into a flash back:

He is a boy, studying to be a photographer when he meets a girl, the girl of his dreams nonetheless. He tries to teach her how to take photos but she cannot learn for the life of her, her pictures always end up unfocused, etc. They both submit photos to an art exhibition, and hers wins. Unable to suck up his pride, Ryuhei (his real name, cannot think of his name in the show) breaks up with her, and she leaves for New York to pursue a career in art.

Years pass, and at a school reunion he hears a rumor that she is dead. He becomes distraught and decides to leave for America to find his long lost love. He gets beaten up by a gang, and would have ended up dead if not for a magical black man who saves him. And by magical I mean he has the magic power to find things by urinating? (You’ll see what I mean) Well anyway, it ends up by some stroke of crazy unlikeliest the black man “found” Ryuhei’s dream lady’s camera with undeveloped film in it.

The undeveloped film when developed leads him to a shipyard where he finds her friend who happens to be waiting for him to kill him for some reason? Ends up she killed his lady friend for some unknown reason, and then they have the cheesiest gun fight ever. He ends up getting shot in the leg or something and the black guy pops out and saves him. Then he is at a photo shoot with the person from the beginning explaining that he took her name after all this so he could get her recognition? Seems cold hearted to me, but they are Japanese?

excuses excuses?

The film is broken up by a number of beautiful, metaphorical(?) not actually happening events, as was the case with Ping Pong as well. It was worth watching just for the scene with the flying orange?