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02/09/06
Hush! (2001)
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Reviews Counted:14
Fresh:11
Rotten:3
Average Rating:6.2/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 15 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: In this Japanese comedy from director Ryosuke Hashiguchi, a closeted gay man named Katsuhiro (Seiichi Tanabe) meets his match in outgoing Nayoa (Kazuya Takahashi), and the two seemingly opposite... [More]
Starring: Kazuya Takahashi, Seiichi Tanabe, Reiko Kataoka, Manami Fuji
Director: Ryosuke Hashiguchi
Reviews for Hush!
1 - 15 (sorted by rotten rating; UK critics are listed first)
Top CriticStarts promisingly but disintegrates into a dreary, humorless soap opera.
04/25/03
What might've been an exhilarating exploration of an odd love triangle becomes a sprawl of uncoordinated vectors.
04/13/03
A feel-good movie that doesn't give you enough to feel good about.
11/06/02
Though it breaks no new ground, it's quietly funny and moving, a welcome change of pace from the norm.
11/08/02
Top CriticHashiguchi vividly captures the way young Japanese live now, chafing against their culture's manic mix of millennial brusqueness and undying, traditional politesse.
10/26/02
Hashiguchi ... enriches his rendition with melancholic ambivalence, sociological specificity, and a knack for delicate epiphany.
11/05/02
No review available.
07/21/05
Hashiguchi uses the situation to evoke a Japan bustling atop an undercurrent of loneliness and isolation.
11/07/02
Ryosuke has created a wry, winning, if languidly paced, meditation on the meaning and value of family.
06/26/02
While not quite a comedy, the film tackles its relatively serious subject with an open mind and considerable good cheer, and is never less than engaging.
11/07/02
Hashiguchi covers this territory with wit and originality, suggesting that with his fourth feature -- the first to be released in the U.S. -- a major director is emerging in world cinema.
11/07/02
Top CriticBe patient with the lovely Hush! and your reward will be a thoughtful, emotional movie experience.
02/28/03
If the incidents are piled on one another without adding up to much, they provide telling social details.
11/07/02
Top CriticAlthough the editing might have been tighter, Hush! sympathetically captures the often futile lifestyle of young people in modern Japan.
11/08/02
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