Recently seen movies #1

Mystery Train (USA, 1989) – 3/5
Three stories in the shadow of The King. Jim Jarmusch’s uneven episode film set in Memphis begins with a terrific, slow moving story of a young Japanese couple who come to visit the hometown of Elvis. The lead couple Masatoshi Nagase and Youki Kudoh (from Shinji Somai’s masterpiece Taifu Club) give fantastic performances. The follow up, a dull tale of an Italian woman who gets ripped off by practically everyone, only comes with two good scenes. Thankfully the film ends with a bang, when Joe Strummer and Steve Buscemi are having a hilariously tragic night with booze and guns.

Blog opened

Let’s see if this is working… hmm, ok. My name is Mikko Koivisto and I’m a 21 year old IB student from Finland. I did not create this blog out of free will (where are the smileys…? ah, never mind. I love joking without smileys. Makes it less underlining) but because this is a compulsory school assignment. This is my first time creating a blog but so far this seems very easy.

In case you’re wondering, the header image is from one of my favourite movies, Shinji Aoyama’s Eureka. On this blog you’re probably gonna see me writing about movies, mostly asian (got a bit tired of American films, with a few exceptions, and haven’t had time to introduce myself to European stuff yet) because I don’t really know what else to write about. I’m gonna keep my life (mostly) to myself and not share too much of it over the net.