Review: blushing to gushing -- imamura squirts the screen in ` warm water under a red bridge ' 
Sentiment: positive

Review: just does n't have the necessary self-control to guide a loose , poorly structured film through the pitfalls of incoherence and redundancy . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: the books are better 
Sentiment: negative

Review: feels homogenized and a bit contrived , as if we 're looking back at a tattered and ugly past with rose-tinted glasses . 
Sentiment: negative


Review: 's difficult to feel anything much while watching this movie , beyond mild disturbance or detached pleasure at the acting