I Recommend Bubble Fiction (and Big Shoulder Pads)
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Posted 1 year, 2 months ago at 9:34 pm. 0 comments
I love in-flight movies, especially on JAL.
I saw “Baburu e Go!” (a.k.a. Bubble Fiction: Boom or Bust) on my way to Tokyo and I recommend it. It is a wacky Japanese comedy about a girl going back in time, using a washing machine, to save the collapsing Japanese economy. Bubble refers to the economy in the 80’s, when everyone was blowing money like crazy.
Ryoko Hirosue (the Yahoo!BB girl) ’s role as a young bar hostess is very cute and convincing; even though she is not young in person and played the same type of character ten years ago.
Perhaps it was the parallelism I could draw between Japan and Hong Kong that made me fell for this film. I remember there was a time when getting a taxi was a challenge. Now I see long lineups of empty taxis with drivers bickering on the side.
Official website with trailers (Japanese) and its IMDB page.