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Author: Kanji Tsuda, Tokie Hidari, Yojin Hino, Yûrei YanagiActor: Dankan, Gadarukanaru Taka, Hakuryu, Sonomanma Higashi, Takeshi Kitano
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Japanese (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Anamorphic, Director's Cut, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 108 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-11-19
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: 21st Century DreamQuest Films
Movie Reviews of Getting Any?
Movie Review: min'na yatteruka
Summary: 5 Stars
I was first exposed to the filmic works of Kitano Takeshi more than half a decade ago when the teachers of my Japanese language class screened Kikujiro the class after our midterm. Charmed by the film, I hurriedly purchased Hana-bi, A Scene at the Sea, and Kids Return. What struck me about his films was that there was no set formula, even though the same actors appear in his films, or detailed theme, but each film contained its own melancholy, surrealism, and playfulness that, although completely and firmly set in Kitano's filmic world.
However, although I enjoy each of the above mentioned films, the film that I have used to introduce a number of my friends to the films of Kitano Takeshi is Getting Any?, a film that is often consider by both Japanese and Western critics to be Kitano's lewdest, most hackneyed film that completely fails at being a comedy. Well, I enjoyed the film and, besides Kikujiro, I have watched it more times than any other Kitano film. Why? Because its brand of surrealism set in modern Japan is a rarity to be found in the filmscape of Japanese cinema.
Getting Any?, Min'na yatteruka?, centers upon the life of Asao, a deadpan, seemingly emotionless fellow whose main goal in life seems to be buying a car and getting a girl with whom he can engage in "car sex." Unfortunately, Asao has little money and can only afford lemons that fall apart almost immediately after he purchases them. Undeterred, Asao decides to do a number of things to make money such as selling a relative's organs, robbing a bank, by first going through an elaborate scheme to make his own pistol, robbing an armored car, and becoming an actor. The "plotline" of Asao having sex with a girl in his new car falls by the wayside at the middle of the film when he becomes a gangster and later the fly man. Haphazard, surreal, and just plain insane, Getting Any? makes for an interesting film viewing experience.
Film scholar Aaron Gerow states that Getting Any? is more than just a display of the bifurcated nature of Kitano Takeshi in his personas of Beat Takeshi the film/television actor and Kitano the director, but that it is an attack against the setting of formulaic, staged comedy. Kitano, who considers Getting Any as his magnum opus, supposedly made Getting Any? intentionally unfunny in order to strike against the prosaic, threadbare nature of Japanese comic television to show how empty and lame it really is without the accompanying glitz of television. If this is the case or not, Getting Any? is definitely not a typical comedy which will leave many, both Western and Japanese, scratching their heads.
Summary of Getting Any?
From the acclaimed director Takeshi Kitano [Fireworks, Kikujiro] comes a bizarre, over the top and absurd comedy full of slapstick silliness and never ending gags. A great satire of Japanese society and popular cinema, Getting Any?, embraces the spirit of Kitano?s early stand-up and television work and as such it offers a genuine inside look into his true personality. The story follows the nerdy middle age Asao, a professional daydreamer, whose one and only goal in life is - as the title suggests - to get laid. Asao embarks on a series of slapstick adventures in search of fulfilling his ultimate fantasy - making wild passionate sex with a woman. His holy quest for sex lands Asao in a series of absurd situations, involving robbery schemes, big movie productions, yakuza gang rivalry wars and scientific experiments. Getting Any? may be very episodic and perhaps even pointless in the grand scheme of things, but for those willing to go for it, it's a hoot from start to finish.Similar DVD Movies
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