You may remember the librarian Kenji as Kikihara in Ichi the Killer or the yakuza guy as Miike Takashi, but either way, this is not Ichi's twin, sequel, brother, cousin or bastard son.
Even with a yakuza sub-plot, this Hong Kong/Japan/Thailand film presented in Thai, English and Japanese (maybe more...) is softer than Ichi; about a shut in recluse anal Japanese librarian finding out that he is not the last life in the universe as he supposes he is.
Opening with Kenji's (Asano Tadanobu) admission that in three hours time, two people will enter his meticulous apartment to find him hanging not from heart break or hopelessness, but from release of the mundane to the closure of another fantasy image, you watch ths "love story" unravel between the last two people on Earth.
Noi (Sinitta Boonyasak) loses her sister in the same 24 hour span where Kenji loses his brother--both in horribly violent on screen ways. Kenji, as a witness to Noi's sister's death, makes friends with Noi in a way that only an anal retentive recluse can: he cleans her house for her (while she has some fantastic trip where the house cleans itself).
So much goes on in this movie that I could write pages and pages worth of essay style writing, but I'd rather just define it as beautifully filmed, scripted and performed.
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