![]() ![]() Naturally, things don’t quite go where he expects, and the film proves to be an interesting one for LaBute, who has explored toxic masculinity in his earlier work, though this is a sexy thriller that’s very much a post-#MeToo exploration of dating. The former starts out as a fairly simple two-hander with Justin Long and Kate Bosworth playing strangers who meet at a bar and return to her massive mansion for…whatever is going to happen next. Now, LaBute returns with two new original movies that he both wrote and directed - House of Darkness and Out of the Blue. That was followed by several films that he wrote and directed, including Your Friends & Neighbors (1998), Nurse Betty (2000), and The Shape of Things (2003), though he began directing other writers’ scripts more often after his 2005 remake of The Wicker Man. In fact, it’s been seven years since his last feature film, Dirty Weekend, which came after a fairly prolific run that began in 1997 with an adaptation of his own stage play, In the Company of Men. It feels like we haven’t seen many movies from playwright-turned-filmmaker Neil LaBute in recent years. Home video release ĭVD of the film was released by Asian Film Network.Justin Long in House of Darkness/Saban Films Peter Bradshaw of called the film a "chaotic Yakuza thriller, which has a lot of energy and pace, but is let down by uncertain, and slightly callow, undertones of comic sentimentality." French critics said that " Postman Blues could have been an intelligent extension of his first film that surprised many people." It was even called a disappointment and an innocent black comedy. The film also received negative reviews from a few foreign film critics. The Japanese film critics praised the film by calling it ' both a superb parody of the gangster genre and a masterful exercise in style and storytelling.' Cinematographer Kuriyama Shuji was appreciated for implementing the change of camera work from high action scenes to love scenes. The action and the dialogues of the movie were also appreciated. Though the story appeared a bit complicated but the screenplay led the audience to enjoy the movie. ![]() The film was commercially successful and was declared a hit at the Japanese box office. The film received mixed reviews from critics but was hailed as one of the best works of Hiroyuki Tanaka. "Postman Blues is a film in which absolutely all the characters are so completely crazy that neutralize their absurd plans against each other and the film may find itself with sleepwalking to an end, which must appear in a very bizarre way as logical." Shimizu Hiroshi as Detective Domon Taizo.All this marked the beginning of problems for Sawaki. Meanwhile, Naguchi discovers that the finger he had cut was no longer in his house. The police profiler (Tomoro Taguchi), who was following Sawaki, comes to the conclusion that Sawaki is a member of the criminal gang. He meets a hit man Joe ( Ren Osugi) there who tells him how he had won the contract killing competition called the "Killer of killers". He rushes to the hospital to see the girl Kyoko (Kyoko Toyama) and falls in love with her. On reaching home, Sawaki finds a suicide note in his bag written by a cancer patient to her aunt. Viewing his relationship with Noguchi, the police think that Sawaki is a member of the yakuza and follow him. His finger, which he cut off as a symbol of loyalty to his gang, also accidentally falls into the bag. During his stay Noguchi puts a package of drugs into Sawaki's letter bag. One day Sawaki delivers a letter to him and stays at his place for a while. Noguchi was being spied by the police for a long time. He has an old friend Noguchi (Keisuke Horibe) who, unknown to him, had become a yakuza. Sawaki (Shin'ichi Tsutsumi) is a postman. ![]()
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