Moonlight Whispers (1999)
Moonlight Whispers (1999)
DVDRip | AVI | 640x368 | XviD @ 1740 Kbps | 103 min | 1,35 Gb
Audio: Japanese MP3 @ 128 Kbps | Subs (srt): English, French
Genre: Drama, Romance
DVDRip | AVI | 640x368 | XviD @ 1740 Kbps | 103 min | 1,35 Gb
Audio: Japanese MP3 @ 128 Kbps | Subs (srt): English, French
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director: Akihiko Shiota
Writers: Masahiko Kikuni (comic), Yôichi Nishiyama
Stars: Kenji Mizuhashi, Tsugumi, Kôta Kusano
Satsuki (Tsugumi) and Takuya (Kenji Mizuhashi) are high school students who meet at kendo practice, where they bash one another with wooden swords. They begin an awkward romance, but Takuya soon reveals a masochistic side to his desires. He has been stealing Satsuki's soiled clothing and secretly surveilling her while imagining her subjugation of him. Disgusted, Satsuki rejects him – but he persists, and she discovers her own pleasure in manipulating and humiliating him.
IMDB - 6 wins
… Although I'm not sure what the director had in mind in making this film, Moonlight Whispers touched me deeply and, even when I was repulsed by the behavior of the characters, I felt a deep compassion for their pain. There is no trace of exploitation in Shiota's film and, while mental health experts might frown, the relationship feels organic to the characters and not pathological. The director makes no judgments, showing only the lengths people with low self-esteem will go to feel wanted and needed. I was reminded of the words of author Georges Bernanos when he wrote, "How easy it is to hate oneself. True grace is to forget. Yet if pride could die in us, the supreme grace would be to love oneself in all simplicity". What this brilliant and disturbing film says to me more than anything else is that we cannot truly love another human being unless we learn to love ourselves.
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Moonlight Whispers (1999)
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