| Quartet |
| Rating: * * 1/2 Director: Joe Hisashi Running time: 113 minutes Language: Japanese
Now showing |
As Japan's most in-demand screen composer, Joe Hisaishi has worked with Takeshi Kitano, Hayao Miyazaki and other leading Japanese directors, in addition to performing in a variety of musical formats, from solo to orchestral concerts. His film music is, depending on taste, either maddeningly simple and repetitive (after a screening of "Kikujiro" at Cannes, a critic for Vogue told me he felt like driving the theme song out of his head with a hammer) or entrancingly melodic and atmospheric.
Yoshihiko Hakamada and Sachiko Sakurai in "Quartet"