Real: A Perfect Day for Plesiosaur is a Japanese film from 2013 that's directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. It's not readily available here in the US but someone was able to supply a bootleg DVD for us to watch. It's a film about a guy named Koichi and his comatose wife Atsumi. She nearly drowned when she committed suicide and has remained in a coma for a year. The medical people have a device that lets Koichi enter Atsumi's mind and communicate with her. Inside her head he visits their apartment where she sits drawing her gruesome murder comic. He tries to get her to tell him why she tried to kill herself. He had little luck and the device has a side effect. He's having hallucinations of a wet young boy haunting him. It's sort of a ghost story but it's more psychological drama than horror film. The movie is long, 127 minutes, and it pokes along with Koichi attempting to puzzle out his wife's suicide until about the 85 minute mark when the story takes a big flip flop and things get weirder. It's a lot less weird and bleak than some of the other films Kurosawa I've seen. It gets a 5.8 on the IMDb but it's a bit better than that. I'd recommend it for those that don't mind a slow pokey drama with the medium amount of weirdness. I'm not sure I'd bother watching it again now that I've seen it.
On the other hand I'd watch Blue Murder At St Trinian's again. It's the second time I've seen it in the last couple of years and I enjoyed it all over again. It's the second of the original 4 films and it first came out in 1957. It's directed by Frank Launder and he co-wrote it with Sidney Gilliat. The movie opens with Miss Friton in jail and the school is being run by the the army. They aren't doing so well but they're hopeful that they will be able to survive until the new head mistress arrives. She's due any day. Flash Harry is running a marriage bureau used to get rich husbands for the older girls. A rich Italian count wants to see several of the girls in Rome but it's mid-term so the girls get together to cheat their way into a free trip on the continent. That works out well for them but the locals take a right drubbing. There's plenty of laughs and violence to keep my interest and I know I'll be wanting to watch this series again.
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