Boring, wooden, pointless

Rating: Null/10 (14 January 2004)

A great pity Bill was wasted in this film which was clearly an expensive whimsical distraction for a failed actress and famous director's daughter. Heaven knows why it has been praised so much and "Globalised". This could have been set in Blackpool, England (a popular seaside resort town with its own inimitable character!) as well as in a place which I know quite a lot about but gave me nothing of the essence of Japan or its people. A complete waste of time, a major hype and not an enhancement to Bill's movie career.