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...Disney TV-movie hit High School Musical, this one is an earnest, virtually all-girl story about a quartet who hope to win their year-end talent competition with a rendition of the Blue Hearts? 80s hit song that is this movie?s title. The proceedings, under Nobuhiro Yamashita?s sluggish direction, are predictable and hardly worth noting - except for that song, simple and simply irresistible, which neither meditation nor surgery has been able to remove from my head since I saw the movie last year at the Toronto Film Festival. Everybody: "Linda, Linda! Linda Linda...
...Hazy Life, a loving indulgence of slacker society by first-time director Yamashita Nobuhiro, strips away all visual pyrotechnics and simply narrates the relationship between two homeless men who never went to school and whom society cares nothing about. Their one indulgence is to dub and star in adult videos. Nihilistic, simple and moving, it does what the other Asian fare at Hong Kong's festival didn't: it tells a story...
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