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Late Bloomer
Directed by
Gô Shibata
2008
83m
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6.3
71%
44%
6.6
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A wheelchair bound man goes on a killing spree to ease his hurt when a local college coed rebuffs his amorous advances.
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Cast of Late Bloomer
Masakiyo Sumida
Masakiyo Sumida
Ariko Arita
Oba-chan
Toshihisa Fukunaga
Fukunaga
Naozô Hotta
Take
Sumiko Shirai
Aya
Mari Torii
Nobuko
Gô Shibata
Director / Screenplay / Editor
Satoshi Nakamura
Writer
Toshiki Shima
Producer
Masaaki Takakura
Director Of Photography
Keita Ichikawa
Editor
Keisuke Suzuki
Editor
Kazuyoshi Kumakiri
Editor
Jun Morino
Sound Recordist
Katsuhiko Maeda
Original Music Composer
Satoshi Naka
Story
Terauchi Naruhito
Original Concept
Late Bloomer Ratings & Reviews
New York Sun
Martin Tsai
While its digital video aesthetic probably has consigned the film to the festival circuit, it will reward moviegoers who find it and give it a chance.
Old School Reviews
John A. Nesbit
doesn't add much profundity to the human condition
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Louis Proyect
Nominally a slasher movie, this is very much more a study of some psychological depth about what it means to be severely disabled. With its limited budget, it achieves more than many movies seeking pat messages about society's outcasts.
Seattle Times
Jeff Shannon
Considering its five-year production history, Late Bloomer is a regrettably scattershot affair.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
You have to meet the film's visual style halfway. It's shot in contrasty black and white, slo-mo, fast-mo, sometimes jagged cutting, sometimes an erratic hand-held camera that suggests the jerky way Sumida must view the world.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
You might not like what you see, but you will appreciate it. And you certainly won't forget it for a while.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
Weird, wicked and wonderfully perverse, Late Bloomer pulses with frigid energy. Watching it is like having your finger trapped in a light socket: no matter how much it hurts, you can't quite tear yourself away.
New York Press
Simon Abrams
It may not look particularly stunning or insightful from a distance; but when viewed up close and in fragments, it's a queasy stutter of rage that is impossible to ignore.
Village Voice
Aaron Hillis
Strangest for genuinely empathizing with the monstrous Sumida-san as if he were the typical disabled lead in an inspirational heartstring-tugger.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
Director Go Shibata's coup is never sentimentalizing Sumida's condition, instead inviting our identification with him as someone just as capable of slipping into a moral abyss, but the director's style can be dumb.
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