Last Life In The Universe

There's an unusual talent at play in Thai director Pen-ek Ratanaruang's third feature: Ratanaruang's simple willingness to tie different strands of melancholy melodramas and violent yakuza thrillers together with flashes of surreal mystery immediately sets him apart from the herd. Kenji (Tadanobu Asano) is a depressed Japanese librarian who, when he's not shelving books at Bangkok's Japan Cultural Center library, spends his time in his obsessively ordered apartment contemplating suicide. Such thoughts are nothing new: When his brother, Yukio (Yutaka Matsushige), a gangster from Tokyo who unexpectedly shows up at Kenji's door needing a place to hide, he's hardly surpr...