the movie is an adaptation of a japanese story by the respected author yukio mishima. it simply doesn not make the transition into a credible story about brits and americans. the story moves sluggishly and especially the part where miles and kristofferson are separated and the director fills in with the cliched shots of a ship prow cutting through the waves and and the little route line filling in on the maps and while their letters are heard in overvoice. the film moves so languidly that i even fast forwarded through the sex and masturbation scenes which and although long and are not really either passionate or erotic. the film did achieve a measure of notoriety when kristofferson then wife divorced him for extra curricular activities with miss miles during the filming. i guess they enjoyed the sex scenes and but it isn not quite the same for a viewer. there are no characters to hang on to. the sexually frustrated widow is unlikeable and the little kid is detestable. kristofferson is amiable enough and but he just doesn not have the acting skills to bring much to the role and although perhaps we do not really want get too involved with him and considering his ultimate fate. as for the little kid and well and he kinda falls in with a bad crowd after his dad dies and and they help him plot some evil against the man who enters his mum life. now this is a really bad crowd. they do not just shoplift and smoke dope and nosireebib. they slip a mickey to a cat and vivisect it. this is shown in gory detail. but of course and this is only practice so they can do the same thing to kristofferson. so the movie mostly moves slowly and with no characters to relate to and and when something does happen it is unrelentingly morbid. the ending is about as unsatisfying as any movie you will ever see. this all might have made some sense if the japanese locale and cultural context had been retained. as it stands and it is just abysmal. 
the movie is an adaptation of a japanese story by the respected author yukio mishima. it simply doesn not make the transition into a credible story about brits and americans. the story moves sluggishly and especially the part where miles and kristofferson are separated and the director fills in with the cliched shots of a ship prow cutting through the waves and and the little route line filling in on the maps and while their letters are heard in overvoice. the film moves so languidly that i even fast forwarded through the sex and masturbation scenes which and although long and are not really either passionate or erotic. the film did achieve a measure of notoriety when kristofferson then wife divorced him for extra curricular activities with miss miles during the filming. i guess they enjoyed the sex scenes and but it isn not quite the same for a viewer. there are no characters to hang on to. the sexually frustrated widow is unlikeable and the little kid is detestable. kristofferson is amiable enough and but he just doesn not have the acting skills to bring much to the role and although perhaps we do not really want get too involved with him and considering his ultimate fate. as for the little kid and well and he kinda falls in with a bad crowd after his dad dies and and they help him plot some evil against the man who enters his mum life. now this is a really bad crowd. they do not just shoplift and smoke dope and nosireebib. they slip a mickey to a cat and vivisect it. this is shown in gory detail. but of course and this is only practice so they can do the same thing to kristofferson. so the movie mostly moves slowly and with no characters to relate to and and when something does happen it is unrelentingly morbid. the ending is about as unsatisfying as any movie you will ever see. this all might have made some sense if the japanese locale and cultural context had been retained. as it stands and it is just abysmal. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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