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irasshaimase, kanja sama.
Last Friday we went to see the new comedy "いらっしゃいませ、患者さま。" by Hara Takahito.
The title is a difficult one to translate, "kanja" means patient, while "irasshaimase" ("Welcome" as used at companies and shops) and "-sama" (formal title used in business relations, etc.) aren't vocabulary you normally hear in a hospital.
In this film, a hospital with bad reputation and debts is transformed into a money-making machine by putting all focus on "customer satisfaction", such as offering sort of kinky optional services like extended time spent with cute nurses and CT scans together with a nurse on top, in other words, turning it into a kyabakura (lit. "cabaret club")-like business.
Surely, none of the customers have anything to complain about, as long as they're paying, they're enjoying their time at the hospital, some even refusing to leave when the times comes. However when the yakuza to who the hospital owes money decides to get the thing shut down, his illness resurges. Not being able to book himself into another hospital because of his scary status, the kyabakura-hospital's doctors take the opportunity to prove that their establishment isn't worthless by trying to save the life of the bad guy...
A very funny movie of absolute non-sense, its awkward mix of two completely different worlds guarantees a lot of laughs!
Oh, and for sitting in the front row during the accompanying talk show, as there was no other place left for the three of us, I got to see my face on TV for a few seconds today. :)
Btw [ Nick :) ], it was to my surprise that the film features Shinohara Tomoe in two short scenes. She plays an eccentric-looking patient. :)
Posted on June 12, 2005 at 20:06 | Tweet
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I'm not so sure the kinky/hospital mix is all that novel, it seems pretty well tapped out in cosplay and porn scenarios. So I wouldn't say it guarantees much of anything except I'm sure some audience members are now considering doing something like it as an actual business plan after seeing the movie.
Then again if you had a good time watching the film then who's to complain.
I keep seeing the soundtrack to some 1990s Hospital set live action sexy comedy of some sort. It's probably lame (obviously the music must be). It seemed to be focused around a bunch of nurses with machine guns thereby incorporating the violent action genre into the mix. But even that seems to show up in anime now and again.
p.s. Tomoe says she's too scared to see herself in (Godzilla) GMK - as you might know there's a hospital scene in that one. I'm upset she only reappears the one time. Why not make her surviving a running theme?
Posted by ndkent on June 13, 2005 at 00:18
Of course the nurse+kinky mix is nothing new, but I thought the concept of running a hospital like a kyabakura was.
Indeed some viewers may feel like they have a new business plan. :)
Haven't got to see the latest Godzilla yet.
Posted by Patrick on June 13, 2005 at 07:46
I guess the new Godzilla Final Wars will be on DVD soon, I already saw promo material.
I guess the buzz for Westerners is man-in-a-suit Japanese Godzilla has a showdown with CGI American Godzilla at one point.
But "All Out Mosters Attack" the first one made by the new Gamera director is the only one with Tomoe.
Besides Tomoe in a brave role, the other thing I'd really like to see in a Godzilla film is aibon and nono as the Mothra twins. They always get such bland Peanut substitutes.
Posted by ndkent on June 13, 2005 at 22:33
I'm mostly interested in it for the big mess of all those monsters in the same film.
The Peanuts were definitely the best as the shōbijin.
Posted by Patrick on June 14, 2005 at 11:04
Now that's the kind of health care i'd like to get!
Posted by Martin on June 15, 2005 at 22:27