Last Life In The Universe

2003, Movie, NR, 112 mins

Last Life In The Universe: Review

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 contemplat... read more leave a comment