About Love (2005) - Ten Shimoyama, Chin-yen Yee, Yibai Zhang

Rating: 7.4

Runtime: 102

Language: Mandarin & Japanese ( English softsubs )

Country: Taiwan | China | Japan

Color: Color


IMDb Link:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0456821/



Director: Ten Shimoyama, Chin-yen Yee, Yibai Zhang

Cast:

Bo-lin Chen ... Yao (segment "Tokyo")

Mavis Fan ... A-Su (segment "Taipei")

Yui Ichikawa ... Yuka (segment 'Tokyo')

Misaki Ito ... Michiko (segment "Tokyo")

Ryo Kase ... Tecchan (segment "Taipei")

Lu Lu ... Yun (segment "Shanghai") (as Xiaolu Li)

Ren Osugi ... Shop owner (segment 'Tokyo')

Takashi Tsukamoto ... Shuhei (segment "Shanghai")

Rui Yang ... Min



Description: The theme here is of youthful Sino-Japanese relations, and runs through "About Love," a collection of three stories ably handled by young directors in Tokyo, Taipei and Shanghai. The cultural (and film-making) differences underlined by the segments provide a neat update on certain trends in Far East cinema.







"Tokyo," the first of the trio of half-hour yarns, was made on DV by musicvid director Ten Shoyama ("Muscle Heat"), is about a slow-burning romance between a Taiwanese graphic artist, Yao (Chen Bo-lin), who moves to Tokyo to pursue a career in manga, and a Japanese artist, Michiko (Misaki Ito), who "lives" the giant canvases she paints. Yao courts her by leaving sketches of a sad girl on the front door of the studio where she works. This is a charming story, less notable for its central story than for its portrait of itinerant Chinese adrift in Japanese society.







The second offering, "Taipei," reverses the idea, focusing on a lonely Nipponese guy in Taiwan. Tecchan (Ryo Kase) befriends a local flake, Ah Si (pop star Mavis Fan), but ends up used by her to get back at her boyfriend (Alan Kuo) who's dumped her.







The most satisfying part is the final one, shot among the flavorsome back-alleys of central Shanghai by promising new mainland talent Zhang Yibai ("Spring Subway"). A Japanese student, Shuhei (Takashi Tsukamoto), lodges at the home of young dreamer Xiaoyun (Li Xiaolu) and her mom (Li Xiaojia), and when she secretly translates a Dear John postcard he's received from his girlfriend she finds herself falling for him. Zhang's direction is always acute and polished, signaling him as a strong future voice in accessible Chinese cinema. Li Xiaolu (the girl in Joan Chen's "Xiu Xiu") is as cute as a button.







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