Saw an excellent movie at 1:00 AM the other night, morning. It wasn't so much the story or the acting, both of which were pretty main-stream boring but it was the editing and shots: split screen, warped time and space, bizarre characters (the druggie musician was very, very over-the-top as if the writer 奥寺佐渡子 or the director 原正弘 had never actually seen a drug-user musician). But mostly the technical aspects: A sound is heard and then three different sets of people react to it - or don't. Title is OLDK which needs some explaining.

A 1LDK is a one-room bedroom apartment with a living room (L), dining room (D), and kitchen (K). A 2LDK is a two-bedroom apartment with a separate Living room (L) and Dining room (D). An OL is an Office Lady, a woman who works in an office. The star of this moving works as an OL. She has a small apartment with a living room, kitchen and dining room. But it is old and small. So she is an OL with a small apartment OLDK. Great title.

The main character is Keiko (played by big-eared Shimizu Mina, visual at right) who has a boring job and no boyfriend so she decides to commit suicide on her birthday. Her neighbor on one side is a guy with two or more girlfriends and their constant love-making is driving Keiko bonkers (the sound). The musician on the other side is just too loud all the time. And the mysterious upstairs neighbor is causing the ceiling to fall in.

Through the course of events we see these four people interact, ignore each other, go about their business in a warped Tarantino-esque way, which is what made it interesting to watch.

I couldn't find a YouTube video of OLDK but I did find Shimizu's more recent movie about Japanese lesbians - that caught your attention, eh? - called Topless. Here's the opening nsfw scene: