Rotten
Starts promisingly but disintegrates into a dreary, humorless soap opera.
Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle
Hush!
Two guys, a girl, and the desire for a baby.
2001 · 2h 15m · N/A
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Ryosuke Hashiguchi
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Hush!
Overview
Naoya and Katsuhiro are boyfriends, new in their relationship. Things are uneven at first—Naoya is open and free while Katsuhiro is cautious and closeted—but nothing compares to the chaos that arrives when Asako, a troubled woman with a history of psychiatric problems, abortions, and casual sex, asks Katsuhiro to conceive a child with her.
Director and cast
- Ryosuke Hashiguchi Director
- Reiko Kataoka as Asako Fujikura
- Kazuya Takahashi as Naoya Hase
- Seiichi Tanabe as Katsuhiro Kurita
- Tsugumi as Emi Nagata
- Manami Fuji as Katsumi Hase, Naoya's Mother
- Tetsu Sawaki as Makoto
- Ken Mitsuishi as Shoji Kurita, Katsuhiro's brother
- So Yamanaka as Yuji
- Kanako Fukaura as Mrs. Tadokoro
- Yousuke Saito as Aritomo
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
79%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Although the editing might have been tighter, Hush! sympathetically captures the often futile lifestyle of young people in modern Japan.
V.A. Musetto, New York Post
Fresh
If the incidents are piled on one another without adding up to much, they provide telling social details.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Fresh
Hashiguchi covers this territory with wit and originality, suggesting that with his fourth feature -- the first to be released in the U.S. -- a major director is emerging in world cinema.
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
Hashiguchi uses the situation to evoke a Japan bustling atop an undercurrent of loneliness and isolation.
Ernest Hardy, L.A. Weekly
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