Toh, a Japanese film shot entirely in Italy to celebrate 50 years of Fuji TV! Rome, December 2009, Christmas Eve: the G8 is in the capital and with the arrival of heads of state and ministers of the countries most industrialized world, all embassies are in turmoil, especially the Japanese who expected the imminent arrival of Foreign Minister Wataru Kawagoe, engaged in a difficult diplomatic negotiations concerning the humanitarian aid to the usual fictional ex-Soviet republic into civil war (topic so also inflated in western cinema to compose screenplays set in war scenarios), this time the Republic is called "Valcana, Kawagoe and the Minister will be involved in a major deal with none other than Italian Prime Minister (thankfully no mention of the film Berlusca, not even a caricature, no nothing). The protection and management of the Japanese minister of the anti-terrorism entrusted by the Tokyo super badass dark and very efficient staff expert in the field of bad guys that Kosaku Kuroda, starring a woody 织田裕二 (Yuji Oda ). Main so to speak architect casino embassy is the young and careless intern Masaki Fujii, played by beautiful, young and famous 戸 田 恵 梨 香 ( Toda Erika ) (I remember it as the idol Misa Amane, very bad alter-ego in Kira Death Note The Last Name like the sweet and envied handsome girl of the drama "Nobuta Wo Produce", Mariko Uehara).
Things seem to be going well when our own intern receives a request for help from a Japanese woman, Saeko Yakama, played by 天 海佑希 ( Amami Yūki ) , which no longer has her daughter, traveling with her to Rome and waiting for an important and delicate operation chirurugica eyes. The young Masaki asks for help in turn to a senior advisor to the embassy, \u200b\u200bwhich decided to add Kuroda due to the excellent ability of the intern not to speak Italian. Our Kuroda instead comes off quite well in Italian: Mrs. Yakama receives a phone call from the daughter and discovers that the same has been kidnapped: the kidnapper speaks Kuroda who pretends to be the father of the child. Get into the game, the police led by a heavy Italian Rocco Papaleo said that the only smart thing the whole movie: the fact that Kuroda has been passed off as the girl's father will force him to always be with Mrs. Yakama, not suspicious of the kidnappers .
protection of the prime minister goes to hell so much to the chagrin of the embassy, \u200b\u200bIMMULITE attempts to have contact with the kidnappers who seem to be always one step ahead of investigators and yet our super agent. Kuroda will take the investigations to uncover a plot far more serious and complex than a simple kidnapping, and to travel well in Amalfi.
One of the most interesting things about this film is that it acted for a large number of beats in Italian by the Japanese players who make an effort and quite some success to have a good pronunciation of our language, and then there are the Papaleo led by our Italian actors who unfortunately face the disgusting show how our current "park actors." Maybe the acting is more believable than that of the receptionist in the hotel which houses Kuroda, very natural with his Roman accent, or the passer-spin 'Kuroda che lo urta durante un inseguimento, sempre in romanesco ovviamente.
Per il resto, abbiamo dei rapitori e dei terroristi alquanto amanti delle bellezze del nostro paese e soprattutto di Roma, visto che fanno disperare il povero Kuroda tra Castel Sant'Angelo, Piazza di Spagna e i principali luoghi turistici della capitale, e poi lo fanno andare pure ad Amalfi (non a Torre Del Greco, Potenza o Mazzara Del Vallo, ma ad Amalfi), con alcune scene ambientate alla Reggia di Caserta, etc. Le forzature non mancano, mentre l'unica cosa non enfatizzata è l'idiozia di un pò tutti gli Italiani, soprattutto delle forze dell'ordine (fantastico il cordone umano che alcuni agenti formano davanti all'ambasciata Giapponese per prevent a small crowd of policemen (Poliziotti!!) does not enter into a non-legitimate since diplomatic area), then the character played by Papaleo is so heavy and stupid we really ashamed to be Italians.
For the rest, too many clichés out of place as the ice cream cone (integer) trampled by Kuroda in Piazza di Spagna (pity that it is December 24), the ubiquitous pizza, the jaws of the high fashion, the constant references to the Mafia as a terrorist group and intended as the author of Abduction (do not know, the Japanese, that the Mafia are the white-collar friends of both institutions), the Italian men who do nothing but tow (Actually the males trying to pick up Italian, but not overly violent in the way that you see in a scene from the film), and the Italian couple who do nothing but kiss in the mouth with his tongue. Are impressive shots of the pages of the newspaper "Republic" with the news of the events of the film and many many other things we are familiar with on-screen with his usual precision and accuracy in Japan.
The plot is somewhat intriguing, written and directed by Yuichi Shinpo 西 谷 弘 ( Hiroshi Nishitani ), former director of a police-detective drama very avvincente e complesso come "Galileo", è estremamente brillante. Insomma, due ore non sprecate, soprattutto se volete vedere dei Giapponesi che recitano a Roma e in Italiano!
Ad dimenticavo, la main theme song del film è "Con Te Partirò", ma non è cantata da Bocelli ma con un pesante accento inglese da una cantante inglese, Sarah Brightman (forse Bocelli è oramai troppo importante e caro anche per la Fuji TV?)
アマルフィ 女神の報酬 ( Amarufi: Megami No Hoshu - Amalfi: the reward of the Goddess)
Japan, 2009 - directed by Hiroshi Nishitani
Japan, 2009 - directed by Hiroshi Nishitani
