Couldn't sit through it!

Rating: 1/10 (7 March 2010)

Unbelievable. I couldn't watch beyond 45 minutes. And this is coming from someone who loves films and is not alien to Japanese films.
I'm shocked that this has 5 stars on Netflix and 8.2 stars here. Argh! It is so poorly made that I don't even care to write a review saying how poor it is. I'm quite surprised that it has won so many awards. Who are these guys judging films?!!! I've never had much regard for the Academy Awards but seriously, how can such third rate stuff be given an award? The direction is amateur, the acting is overdone, and the screenplay is absolutely unrealistic. I checked on wiki and the director Yōjirō Takita used to direct softcore pornographic films. That should have been a redflag for me.