Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers!

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Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers!

2007

1h 52m

Drama

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More tragedy awaits family members home for a funeral.

Critics Consensus

Twisted Japanese black comedy which is visually striking yet tonally bizarre.

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Edward Porter

Times (UK)

The film's wacky ghoulishness holds your attention, but there's not much more than that on offer. Despite a lot of manic effort, none of the actors makes an impression.

Rated: 2/5

May 7, 2009

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Trevor Johnston

Time Out

With Kyomi's manga-drawing skills a key part of the scenario, the visual approach is sometimes too fluffily decorative to let the emotions deliver in full. Eminently likeable nonetheless.

Rated: 3/6

May 1, 2009

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Wendy Ide

Times (UK)

Tonally, it strikes a curious balance between black comedy and melodrama, but visually it's a striking film.

Rated: 2/5

May 1, 2009

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Panos Kotzathanasis

Asian Movie Pulse

Daihachi Yoshida pens and directs a film whose strongest point is the presentation of so many dissimilar characters, although all of which are members of the same family and have to interact within the same environment.

Nov 30, 2019

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Rob Hunter

Film School Rejects

Writer/director Yoshida Daihachi fills his brightly-lit scenes with darkness between relatives - some mild, some involving physical abuse - but the occasional laughs and visual flairs prevent the movie from ever becoming a dour affair.

Rated: B-

Jul 5, 2015

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Philip French

Observer (UK)

Seduction, persecution, prostitution, suicide and uneasy laughter follow.

May 7, 2009

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william d

Dysfunctional families often make for good cinema, and this family is dysfunctional with a capital "D." Tip o' the hat to Hiromi Nagasaku for a great performance as the downtrodden Machiko.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

An interesting and modestly staged drama that succeeds on the grounds of some great direction and absolutely fantastic performances. Despite characters with quirky back-stories, this is less comedy and more a dark drama about a torn apart family forced to deal with each other in the wake of death. Funuke stays interesting and delivers quality twists and intrigue all the way to the titles, but ultimately piles on so much nasty behaviour between the characters, it becomes hard to invest in any of their stories so much as watch in wonder to see how it unfolds.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/30/23

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Audience Member

Blackly funny one moment and darkly serious the next, this is an unusual and rather cool film I liked a lot.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/14/23

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Audience Member

When her parents are tragically killed in an accident, wannabe actress Sumika returns home to stay with her younger sister, step-brother and his new wife. Tensions escalate however as family secrets emerge... Funuke is a small scale family drama but packed with well crafted characters who each project a myriad of emotions and flaws. Rich and rewarding viewing.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/06/23

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Audience Member

Really funny and dramatic at the same time.... Great actresses for lead roles

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Audience Member

Usual Japanese weirdness, but seriously way too long. They could easily have chopped some scenes out of this one to make it move a little quicker. Good, weird, quirky characters, though, and an original story.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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Synopsis

More tragedy awaits family members home for a funeral.

Director: Daihachi Yoshida
Producer: Shuji Kakimoto, Keisuke Konishi, Yutaka Suzuki
Screenwriter: Yukiko Motoya, Daihachi Yoshida
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Japanese
Runtime: 1h 52m