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Monday, December 12, 2005

Fly Daddy Fly　｢フライ，ダデイ、フライ」

Movie review again and this time is the movie that I have been anticipating to see since summer, at last they release it on DVD. Fly daddy Fly was a movie based on a book written by Kazuki Kaneshiro whom also wrote the script. The story evolved around a happy salaryman, Suzuki Hajime (Tsusumi Shinichi) who has a daughter still in high school Suzuki Naruka(Nanase Hoshii) and a beautiful wife Suzuki Yuko(Mire Aika). One day, Hajime Suzuki got a call from a hospital informing that her daughter was badly abused and beaten. Later he found out that another student from all boys'high school called Ishihara Yusuke (Genki Sudoh) was the one who responsible for everything. Hajime was a man who dislike to confront at people as he did nothing to defend her daughter. His family of course was so disappointed to find the man of the house acting so coward. Knowing that his family started to refuse talking to him Hajime decided to challenged Ishihara however he entered the wrong school and met Shunshin Park (okada Junichi) and his friend, ended up being punched by Shunshin. Hajime was then offered by Shunshin's friends Minakata (Toshinobu Minobu,)Yamashita (Sakamoto Makoto), Kayano (Aoki Munetaka) and Itarashiki (Hirose Yoshinobu)to be trained by Shunshin for 40 days and challenged Ishihara on one on one fight, since they got nothing better to do in the long summer holiday. Hajime agreed to the offer and the training began.

The story of this movie is simple and yet it touched me and made me laughed at the same time. The transition of Hajime's character to change from a timid salaryman into a tougher person was perfectly played by Tsusumi Shinichi, that's no doubt of course. Give him any character and he will just shine. Adding the success of this movie was no other that Okada Junichi who was absolutely briliant playing a korean guy who lost his father during his teenager years only to live with his mother whom he hardly met at home. Shunshin was a tough person who has a dark background and the harshness of life he has to face as a foreigner, luckily he got a gang of loyal friends whom practically worship him like a God for he's the cool and tough dude who can fight so well. Little thing was thought in the movie, for example about the actual life in Japan concerning the worn out salaryman coming home every day from work forgetting of their own life. Hajime has to ride a bus from the train station to reach home, where he actually meet group of the same salaryman bearing the same monontonous and tiring life. None of them talked to each other and this had been going on everyday, even the bus driver was somewhat annoyed with the fact that his passangers never talked to each other. Until one day, Hajime decided to run from the bus station to home instead of taking the bus, that amazed the rest of the passangers and because of him they started to talk. This movie won't be that interesting if it's not because of the presence of Shushin's supporters/Friends played hilariously shinning Toshinobu, Sakamoto, Aoki and Hirose. Strangely because of this too, Hajime and Shunshin grew a bond of father and son, shushin found a father figure that he had lost while Hajime found a new son that he had never had.

I have no idea how to give the bad point of view of this movie, maybe I want to know more Shunshin's park background instead of merely a plain conversation with Hajime one day about what makes him acting so tough like this and the fact that he only saw a note from his mother every night about his dinner instead of meeting her. Hm, but that would be out of context of the whole point of this movie which basically focused on Hajime. I have not read the book so I cannot tell any thing different whether Kaneshiro did make anything different than the one he wrote on the book.

Every film has the most memorable quote right? Ok, only great film has memorable quote, in this movie there are some line.."大切なものを守りたいんだろう？おっさん。(Taisetsu na mono o mamoritain darou, ossan? roughly translated =You want to protect your most precious thing right Ossan? Ossan=oyaji, or dad..literally when you call a middle age guy) and Of course...飛べ、おっさん,飛べ！ (Tobe..ossan, tobe =Fly Daddy Fly!) How could I miss these lines? It's so memorable. The DVD was released in two edition as usual and has no substitle and you can check the official website here:
Fly Daddy Fly. From my deepest thought, Tsusumi shinichi deserve an award for this role and that also goes to Okada for being a great supporting actor there. I am not being biased because I am a fan of both but I'm seriously saying this because they're so good. The movie is a treat and it's also worth buying if you ever want to collect it.

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