Distributor:
AV Channel-Madman Certificate: M |
90 minutes | Region 0 Pal Format
Available to Rent
Extras: Yes Reviewer: Fred Hamer
ANYONE
IN IT WE KNOW?
Taki
Abe, Miki Sasaki, Keita Abe, Nobuisha Ikeda
WHAT’S
IT ABOUT THEN?
Low
budget tale of a pair of
Japanese guys road trip around
Australia in search of the
perfect wave, Shark is a seriously
moody piece of work, he has a
philosophy for anything and
eveything, then there's Yuto he
has a special category of his
own it's called "fruit
loop" his idea of a good
time is standing on the roof of
the car surfing while the car is
moving, along the way they pick
up the equally spaced out girl
Kimoko and later the mostly
silent Gunja Man.
SO
IS IT ANY GOOD?
Described
as the first Aussie Japanese surf movie so ones senses go on immediate
alert with just cause as two different cultures collide head on. Bondi
Tsunami is a film of moments rather than plot structure, defiantly
strange but incredibly imaginative, often
it's hard to work out where dreams end and reality begin and often it
does fall flat after all there is a
fine line between silly and funny.
You
have to applaud the guys behind the making of the movie, made on an
almost zero budget and shot using a small digital
DV
Cam by a small crew of four and the non acting leads (all picked up
whilst over here on a working holiday) do reasonably well with their
roles. And
of course its worth watching for the vintage 1961 EK Holden Special
alone. A true Aussie icon and the real star of the movie.
ANY
SPECIAL FEATURES?
Making
Of Featurette, Director's Commentary, Cast Auditions
