The film reveals Kôji Fukada to be playing a patient, very resonant long game, underscoring the struggle to wrest oneself out of social vices.
The Real Thing(本気のしるし)
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Japan · 2020
3h 52m
Director Koji Fukada
Starring Win Morisaki, Kaho Tsuchimura, Shohei Uno, Kei Ishibashi
Genre Drama, Romance
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After a floundering salesman rescues a woman whose car was stuck on the train tracks, she inadvertently whisks him into an epic series of misadventures that turn his life upside down. While his routine was already complicated by two female co-workers, he soon finds himself entrenched with kidnapping, gangsters, and strange interlopers.
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There’s no selling out here. No concessions to mainstream taste. On the contrary, The Real Thing might be the purest — if not the most concise — work yet from an emerging auteur who’s singularly compelled by the friction between public order and private chaos.
The Film Stage by Glenn Heath Jr.
Enough coincidence and happenstance exists in this film to fill a dozen studio love stories, but that doesn’t mean any of it is unearned. There’s no safety net here, making Tsuji and Ukiyo’s epic tale of unrequited love, absence, and yearning the ultimate leap of faith.
Though it comes with good credentials, four hours feels like a lot of screen real estate for a what is essentially an elevated soap opera. For the home-streaming viewer though, The Real Thing meets the essential requirements for binge-watching: it’s undemanding to follow but sustains enough of a mystery to keep us hooked.
RogerEbert.com by Simon Abrams
There are a lot of fragmentary ideas in The Real Thing, but they’re not cohesive or worthwhile as they’re loosely formed into one grey 232-minute lump.
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