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Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers!

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More tragedy awaits family members home for a funeral.
Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers!

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Critics Consensus

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

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Edward Porter The Times (UK) 05/07/2009
2/5
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. Go to Full Review
Trevor Johnston Time Out 05/01/2009
3/6
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. Go to Full Review
Wendy Ide The Times (UK) 05/01/2009
2/5
Tonally, it strikes a curious balance between black comedy and melodrama, but visually it's a striking film. Go to Full Review
Panos Kotzathanasis Asian Movie Pulse 11/30/2019
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. Go to Full Review
Rob Hunter Film School Rejects 07/05/2015
B-
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. Go to Full Review
Philip French Observer (UK) 05/07/2009
Seduction, persecution, prostitution, suicide and uneasy laughter follow. Go to Full Review
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william d @acsdoug 09/23/2021 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. See more 12/18/2015 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. See more 05/10/2011 Blackly funny one moment and darkly serious the next, this is an unusual and rather cool film I liked a lot. See more 04/30/2011 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. See more 10/05/2010 Really funny and dramatic at the same time.... Great actresses for lead roles See more 09/12/2010 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. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

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, Comedy
Original Language
Japanese
Runtime
1h 52m