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A fistful of characters, ping ponging through one Tokyo night and crossing and recrossing paths in a complicated series of intertwined orbits, A STRANGER OF MINE is a movie that says no one is alone, even when they"re in the bedroom with the door locked. Starting out as a sweet romance, STRANGER spends its first half hour tracking the lives of Miyara (Yasuhi Nakamura) and Maki (Reika Kirishima). Miyara dumped her fiancé in a fit of suspicion (which is possibly unjustified) and she"s now wandering around the nighttime streets with all her worldly belongings in tow. Maki is a salaryman who bought an apartment for his new girlfriend, Ayumi (Yuka Itaya) who dumped him before the ink was even dry on the lease. The two meet up in a restaurant and a take a tentative step towards moving on from their heartbreak together. And that"s when director Kenji Uchida pulls the rug out. Rewinding the day, we realize that this is actually a detective story involving Maki"s private investigator pal, Miyara (Kisuke Yamashita), who"s on the trail of the elusive Ayumi. But just when you think you"re following the plot, there"s another reversal, and then another. The same scenes are shuffled and re-shuffled like a deck of cards, seen from other points of view and with their focus moved from character to character. As money is stolen, car accidents are avoided, phone calls are made, and people hide behind doors and under beds, director Kenji shows us a world where everything we do has immediate consequences and no one lives in a vacuum. And make sure you stick around for the final punchline, buried deep within the closing credits. 


 IMDb Link......: imdb.com/title/tt0461857/

 Genre............: Comedy / Drama / Roamnce
 Distributor......: Kam & Ronson Enterprises Co Ltd 
 Year.............: 2005
 Country..........: Japan 
 Director.........: Kenji Uchida

 Source...........: DVD5 HK Retail
 DVD Format.......: NTSC 
 DVD Size.........: DVD5 
 Programs used....: DVD Decrypter
 Video Bitrate....: 
 Screen Format....: Widescreen 1.85:1 (Anamorphic) 
 Audio Language...: Japanese
 Audio Format.....: DD 2.0
 Subtitles........: English, Chinese
 Menu.............: [X] Untouched, intact.
                    [ ] Stripped.

 Video............: [X] Untouched, intact.
                    [ ] Re-encoded.

 DVD Extras.......: [X] Untouched, intact.
                    [ ] Re-encoded.
                    [ ] Stripped.
                    [ ] None on source.