{"id":15207,"date":"2011-06-09T12:45:53","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T20:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=15207"},"modified":"2011-06-09T13:26:45","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T21:26:45","slug":"big-man-japan-hitoshi-matsumoto-2007-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=15207","title":{"rendered":"Big Man Japan (Hitoshi Matsumoto, 2007): Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by William Barton<\/a>.Viewed on Netflix Stream Instantly.<\/p>\n

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For the SBCC film reviews website, June 2011 is a month dedicated to focusing on Japanese films. Now, one would think that an obvious choice would be to review a film by the Japanese film-making legend Akira Kurosawa. A lesser known Japanese genius is Hitoshi Matsumoto. His film Big Man Japan<\/a><\/em> is the single greatest thing to happen to Japanese film since Yojimbo.<\/em><\/p>\n

Patience is certainly a virtue and if you practice patience when watching Big Man Japan, <\/em>it’s as if the gods bless you with infinite cinematic joy. Admittedly, the film starts off a tad slow, but it more than makes up for that once the film gets going. The film begins with the introduction of Masaru Daisato; once a great Japanese super star now fallen from prime time television into the annals of late night\/ early morning television. Daisato, played by Hitoshi Matsumoto himself, gears up for a final comeback to try and bust his way back into the limelight and he even receives help from formerly famous relatives. While I can not tell more for fear that I will give away the plot, I will say this: do not look at any pictures or even read anything other than this review before you watch this film. It’s gold, I tell you, gold!<\/p>\n

This film is certainly for those with eccentric tastes and while it may not agree with everyone, it is still an incredible watch. I promise that you have not seen another film like this. This is much less a review than it is a plea. Invite all of your friends over and try and figure out what’s going on in the movie. I dare you.
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Reviewed by William Barton.Viewed on Netflix Stream Instantly. For the SBCC film reviews website, June 2011 is a month dedicated to focusing on Japanese films. Now, one would think that an obvious choice would be to review a film by the Japanese film-making legend Akira Kurosawa. A lesser known Japanese genius is Hitoshi Matsumoto. His […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1290,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}