The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl
- brisk
- surreal
- intimate
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / experimental, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Country girl Akiko visits a Tokyo college in search of her hometown sweetheart. In the course of finding him, she runs into various odd inhabitants of the college campus–blasé intellectuals, horny co-eds, a psych professor in search of the theory of shame, and of course her beloved Yoshioka, who has become an elusive campus nobody.
Our read · The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl (1985) reads as a neutral, kinetic, surreal comedy · experimental · pink entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl
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“You want weird, Godardian Japanese campus comedy with musical numbers.”
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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