深紅 Shinku

Uchiyama Rina as Kako	Mizukawa Asami as Miho	Horikita Maki as young Kako

A little tid-bit about the cast in this lovely movie first,

Interesting with Maki as the centre, these three have appeared in other subtext projects other than this one. Asami was cast along Maki in the Locker movie series (Shibuya Kaidan) where she played as a college student that was tutoring junior High scholar Maki. Their relationship was kind of interesting…with goggles at max it was plain as day. As for Rina, she was in that nice drama that is one of my favourite JDramas – Seito Shokun, where she plays a new homeroom teacher to a very troubled class (sounds familiar?). The class was run in the shadows by non other than the quite girl Maki who later goes all commando on us and gives us some nice moments between her and Rina. Now, I am not saying you go out and watch this because they aren’t 100% yuri (but really, only 1 in 1000 is ) but if you place your goggles to over 9000, what are you still doing here?

So yeah, there is that history between these ladies and while Maki only appears at the start and in flashbacks, she did a very good job of setting the gripping atmosphere of this movie! I swear this movie really grates the nerves. If I were asked to explain what the Thriller genre is…This would be it! There i little violence but moods…The moods!!!! I can’t count how many times I swallowed nervously when watching this…seriously. There is that scene where Kako and Miho are alone and Miho finally lets lose the true meaning of her words when she had said she wished she was able to kill back then. It turns out she wanted to be the one to kill Kako’s family for what they did to her father (I will explain later don’t worry). The air I swear could be cut with a finger!

By the way, I don’t know if anyone still remembers, but I blogged about this movie on my first attempt at it on Live Spaces but that blog went burst. So here we are again.

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