Jon Yang is a truly beautiful artist. I want to see him in more. OK, in this film they don't use his real voice, he's actually British born I have found out so has a lovely deep English accent. But his acting is enough for you to want to see the whole movie. He is such a sensitive actor and I can't lie he's gorgeous to. Looking forward to seeing, "Act Of Grace', his newest film where apparently he plays the leader of a Trihad gang. Quite different to his romantic lead role in this film.Matthias X. Oberg is a superb Director also, he mustn't go unmentioned. It's a shame he hasn't had a project out in awhile. If you like independent movies and you like watching talented actors check out Jon Yang and this film.

No one will ever confuse this as being another "Lost in Translation" but I'm personally intrigued by just about any film that takes place in Japan and if you throw in a young actress that could stop traffic with her looks than it would be practically impossible for me not to give it a recommendation. Story is about an 18 year old Belgian beauty named Angela (Chloe Winkel) who's an aspiring artist and bored with her life until she meets and falls in love with a Japanese DJ named Yamamoto (Jon Yang) who tells her that he can get her a job in Tokyo working as a hostess in a bar. In no time Angela packs her bags and without telling her parents she jumps on an airplane and heads to Japan.*****SPOILER ALERT***** Angela arrives in Tokyo and has a hard time convincing Papa-San (Bert Kwouk) to hire her but after a scuffle with another girl she gains the attention of the bar's clientèle. With her young looks she becomes the most popular hostess in the establishment but Angela also has a hard time with the other hostesses who think that she's taking away their tip money and they strike back by putting glue in her shampoo and broken glass in her soup. Angela also starts a mini investigation in the disappearance of a former hostess named Larissa (Peggy Jane De Schepper) who is presumed dead but when she starts to ask questions everyone keeps quiet and act as if they don't know anything.This is the third film directed by Matthias X. Oberg and it's still hard to determine how talented a filmmaker he actually is although it's clear he's not what you would call a commercial director and he's shown a penchant to take on provocative stories. To Oberg's credit he gives his film a visual quality by having certain scenes shift from Angela's drawings to what's actually taking place and he also creates a sort of dreamlike mood that has a definite resonance especially with the quiet narration that is spoken. Okay, now that I've detailed the technical aspects that stand out in this film the real reason to watch this is to gawk at the screen debut of Chloe Winkel who possesses beauty that's just darn right rare! Winkel is a model who has taken acting classes and was spotted in a school play(!) when she was cast in this film and like Ewa Aulin from "Candy" she has the definitive nymphet quality that seemingly absorbs the screen she's inhabiting. This film has some sort of mystery in the story but as I continued to watch I kept thinking "who cares" because I just couldn't keep my eyes off of this beautiful creature and let's give Oberg credit again for casting this total unknown in the lead role. Nice job! I'm the first to admit that she really doesn't act here and I don't know if she can act at all but she definitely has a screen presence that can't be taught and I'll make it my mission in life to follow her career for as long as she continues to appear in films. This film is moderately interesting and maybe one day Oberg will become an important director but the real reason to view this film is because of the debut of the luscious Winkel.

The main character is a 18-year-old blond girl Angela. Her passion is to draw comics. After graduating from high-school she's going to look for some adventures... So Angela spontaneously takes up the idea of a Japanese DJ Yamamoto she meets at her graduation party ... and flies off to TOKYO! Everything she sees, she expresses in her drawings.. but some bad things are going on at her new working place... Someone has been murdered... Angela draws and draws... soon it seems, that reality and comics are mixed up.. where's the line between?Even though the artistic and technical side of mixing comics and "real-life" was interesting and even though it was shot in Tokyo..I have to tell, that I didn't like this movie. Max 3 points in 10 point scala. And those points are for the artistic side! And I'm sad, because I expected quite a lot from this film. So what was the problem for me? It was too slow, it was too naive and I'm sorry, but I wasn't so very thrilled about the actors. I have to tell you, that only one actor, Filip Peeters, (a "bad guy") left an impression for me.. I felt cold and even a little bit scared when I saw him on screen, so he LEFT an impression. The others didn't. By the way.. after I saw the film I remembered a film which I saw exactly one year ago.. last autumn -"Ruang rak noi nid mahasan"/"Last Life in the Universe" by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang (Thailand, Japan; 2003). They are not comparable.People who like slow-on-going movies, a little bit romance plus "murder to be solved" and actually, a totally out-of-a-blue ending films, should go and see it.

The story (if you can call it that) is of a girl who works in a Tokyo hostess bar only to uncover a bizarre murder mystery. The screenplay is a rambling mishmash of ideas that -while not entirely successful- maintains our interest throughout and leaves us scratching our heads in bewilderment. From the opening scene, we are submerged into the film's environment without warning or introduction, and without expectation, for that matter. The plot is so non-linear and, quite frankly, non-important that we have no choice but to take the picture on its own terms. Even though nothing seems to fit from a conventional perspective, every bizarre moment of the script seems perfectly ordinary within the film's world. None of the characters seem remotely aware of just how strange their surroundings are, and this is how the film manages to succeed. The film-maker does not even TRY to offer an explanation for anything that takes place, he just presents it and expects us to draw our own conclusions. And even if you never reach a conclusion, as was the case with me, it is still an entertaining experience.