Oh-Oku: The Women of the Inner Palace

This movie is visually superb, but it offers a rather ordinary story (We've seen this type of court intrigue many times) and the huge cast of plotting women an their followers make the movie rather confusing in the beginning.

Quite surprisingly for a movie in competition there was absolutely NO production delegation for this movie -- no director, producer or actor came to present the movie -- and no press conference. To me it says Òwe don't care, please don't vote for us.Ó But why then bother presenting a movie in competition?

See the full review in Protoculture Addicts magazine.

Screened on 2007/09/02 at 11:20 AM in the Cinema Imperial. The theatre was almost full.

Reviewed by Claude J. Pelletier

For more information:    MWFF entry   /    IMDB entry   /    Official Japanese website.