The Shikisoku Generation (Tomorowo Taguchi, 2009)

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Título: The Shikisoku Generation Título V.O: Shikisoku zenereishon Director: Tomorowo Taguchi Año/País: 2009 / Japón Duración: 114 minutos Género: Comedia Reparto: Daichi Watanabe, Kazunobu Mineta, Shigeru Kishida, Asami Usuda, Chiemi Hori Enlaces: Subs Ficha de: katsu333

[katsu333]

Para que no haya confusiones, también es conocida como Oh! My Buddha.

Basada en una novela semi-autobiográfica de Jun Miura, Shikisoku Generation (Shikisoku zenereishon) es una película situada en 1974 que se centra en un adolescente obsesionado con Bob Dylan que crece aburrido. Un verano, decide viajar junto a sus amigos a Okinoshima, tras escuchar de una isla donde, dicen, tienen por costumbre el sexo libre.

Actor/director Taguchi Tomorowo’s second feature tells a sexual coming-of-age story about an average, if extraordinarily excitable, teenage boy. The year is 1974 and the setting is Kyoto, Japan’s ancient capital. Since Taguchi was a teenager at the same time and, like the hero, had a major fixation on Bob Dylan, the film has an autobiographical element, as well as a warm glow of nostalgia. (The novel on which the film is based, however, is by Miura Jun.) What sets Oh, My Buddha! apart from the many similar seishun eiga (“youth films”) in Japan by similarly nostalgic middle-aged directors, is that, instead of trying idealize his youthful self (or rather his fictional stand-in), Taguchi gives us a hero who is dopey, gawky and sex-besotted in the extreme. At the same time, this hero, Jun (Watanabe Daichi), is not a comic caricature, though his adventures, including the romantic and erotic, are mostly played for laughs. He is rather an average middle-class kid in whom many a male audience member will see his idiotic adolescent self, whether he wants to admit it or not. Jun attends a Buddhist high school, which may sound New Age-y, but the black- uniformed student body is universally bored by the chanting and other religious rigamarole that is being crammed down their throats. Instead, Jun and two of his pals become obsessed with a plan for vacationing on an island known for its “free sex.” But when they finally arrive for their three-day stay (all they can evidently afford), they find themselves in an ordinary youth hostel, managed by a welcoming, worldly-wise hippie who calls himself Hige Godzilla (Bearded Godzilla, Mineta Kazunobu). Promisingly, though, one of their fellow guests is the sweet, curvy, easy-going Olive (Usuda Asami) - or “free sex” personified. When she learns that Jun is a guitar player and song writer - and asks him to sing and write something for her - his hopes soar. Oh, My Buddha! wouldn’t be a comedy if Jun’s hopes weren’t dashed (though not completely). It also wouldn’t be a seishun eiga if he didn’t also find himself attracted to Kyoko (Ishibashi Anna), his pretty, virginal classmate since childhood, to whom he can barely speak: pure-hearted puppy love of this sort is a genre staple. The film, though, is light on cliches, dense with close, funny observations about its period and characters. You don’t have to be a Japanese of Taguchi’s generation to understand Jun’s growing pains, which are universal. It may make you wish, though, that you had taken up the guitar, a peerless seduction tool, even in the hands of a teenage goof.

Trailer:

La encontré buscando películas con localización en Kyoto y me pareció interesante. Parece ser que en la mula no está, por lo que la he puesto en lanzamiento, aunque pondré los links de DD en su correspondiente lugar para que haya más seeds. Los subs los he colgado en Kloofy, pero como no sé si los sube o no dejo el e-link aquí:

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Que aproveche 

[Maneki Neko]

Ouh con el protagonista de Boys on The Run y la mona Asami Usuda yei!

[Surabaya]

He empezado a traducir los subs de esta divertida película.
Espero que estén en unos 4 días más.

[Surabaya]

Subs traducidos y enlazados a la ficha.
El ripeo le dejo en PowerRelease un tiempo.

Este tipo de comedias de grupos de amigos me gustan mucho, y esta como no podía ser de otra forma también me ha gustado.
Años 70 con su música, ideales y hippis, pero con un tema que no cambia, la búsqueda del amor de unos adolescentes (mentira, sólo buscan sexo ).
No es una comedia picante precisamente, los chavales a la hora de la verdad son muy inocentes.
Muy divertida, para mí un imprescindible.

[The Rover]

Pues muchas gracias por esa traducción (y por la ficha a katsu333), porque a mí también me suelen gustar este tipo de películas. Y encima ambientada en los '70. ¡No me la pierdo!

[Desártico]

Es una comedia muy inofensiva, sin pretensiones y un poco ingenua, pero la simpatía del protagonista la ha salvado para mí. No es demasiado divertida, más bien tierna, pero el personaje principal es un chico a quien se le coge cariño y eso es ya un mérito de la obra.
Ver para pasar un buen rato.