Keiko, Me Wo Sumasete (2022)
Genre: Drama / Sport
Duration: 89 minuten
Alternative titles: Small, Slow but Steady / ケイコ 目を澄ませて
Country:
Japan / France
Directed by: Shô Miyake
Stars: Yukino Kishii, Tomokazu Miura and Masaki Miura
IMDb score:
6,9 (1.517)
Releasedate: 16 December 2022
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Keiko, Me Wo Sumasete plot
The young professional boxer Keiko was born hearing impaired. Her boxing gym is a second home to her, even though boxing remains extremely difficult. She wins two tough battles, but a fear begins to take hold of her. Her biggest challenge is not the next fight, but to understand herself and why she is boxing.
Actors and actresses
Keiko Ogawa
Katsumi Sasaki
Makoto Hayashi
Shintaro Matsumoto
Seiji Ogawa
Kiyomi Ogawa
Chiharu Sasaki
Reviews & comments
mrklm
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The deaf Keiko Ogawa [Yukino Kishii] has been boxing for over a year and a half in a sober boxing club, where she has developed an efficient way of communicating with trainer Matsumoto [Shinichirô Matsuura], so that she has now become a professional boxer. When the owner [Tomokazu Miura] hints that the future of the boxing club is at stake, Keiko's sporting and personal mindset is in danger of being lost. The training sequences are impressive and Miyake's choice to film the boxing matches as the stylistic counterpart of Raging Bull or Rocky gives it a high degree of originality. Kishii is particularly good in the lead role, but the story is a bit on the thin side.
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mjk87 (moderator films)
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The shots during the credits stood out the most. There was a lot of power from that, they were beautiful, but I really wondered: why do we get these images? What does the director still want to say with it and what did I just look at? Yes, a portrait of a young boxer, but what do those images of the big city have to do with it? Because in the rest of the film that (life in the big city) never came up as a theme. Weird.
Especially a very slow sitting. A film may be quite slow with still images (I sometimes even think so) but those images must have a certain expressiveness. And this film lacked that. The leading lady also doesn't know how to give a lot of depth and I didn't think the whole fact that she is deaf was properly incorporated into the film. In itself that shouldn't matter what a character has among the members, but I sometimes wondered why they had chosen this. The angle is quite interesting though. All in all some nice moments but too much loose sand. 2.5*.
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Fisico
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I do agree with the above posts. A film with clear potential, but I had little idea what exactly the film wanted to say. It may also be just me, but I often had the annoying idea that it was a Chinese or Taiwanese film. Partly because of the leading actress, but also because of the poor decor that I do not directly link to Tokyo or Japan.
The film continues quietly about a Japanese boxer who is deaf. This - just like other sports perhaps - has its limitations that can be curbed with some creativity or effort.
The training ethos was well depicted with a lot of attention paid to the character (superior to the drills). The difficult relationship with her mother was a bright spot from a story perspective, as was the blind coach. Not bad at all, but it could have been a bit spicier.
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