Japanese Story (2003)

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Love the Hard Way

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Rating: R

Release Date: Dec 31, 2003

Running Time: 107 mins.

Country Of Origin: Australia

starring: Toni Collette, Gotaro Tsunashima, Lynette Curran, Matthew Dyktynski, Yumiko Tanaka, Reg Evans, Justine Clarke, John Howard

director: Sue Brooks

A drama set in Western Australia's Pilbura desert. A geologist named Sandy, and a Japanese businessman, Hiromitsu, play out a story of human inconsequence, in the face of the blistering universe. The end of the journey leaves neither person capable of going back to the place from where they started.

January 9, 2004

This haunting and hypnotic tale of love starts out in a minor key as Sandy (Toni Collette), an Aussie geologist, bitches to her boss about having to baby-sit Hiromitsu (Gotaro Tsunashima), a young Japanese executive who only respects those who bow and show their business cards; she doesn't have any. Yet Sandy takes him on the town -- she even holds his head as he pukes after a drunken karaoke session. But she protests the next day when Hiromitsu demands that she drive him into the outback.…