Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!

finally a movie about the evils of polyamory

colin simpson

Beautifully fun yet heartfelt magical realism in the style of Crazy Ex Girlfriend and Jane the Virgin (made even more apparent by Alberto Guerra's resemblance to J*stin B*ldoni). The musical sequences are lacking the tiniest bit of synchronicity I would expect from a movie…

ash

Well meaning and good fun and all that. But I thought this an extremely obvious portrayal of the grieving process that uses only the most blatant cues to tell us how the protagonist is feeling. Just nothing at all to consider that is not in front of your face. Very little…

The Oscar Expert

When I die put me in a giant bird suit and launch me into the air like a firework please

JP Pizzimenti

HA-CHAN, SHAKE YOUR BOOTY! is a vibrant, tonally erratic, emotionally rich celebration of dance and its resilient power in the face of grief, led by an impressively complex lead performance from Rinko Kikuchi. Director Josef Kubota Wladyka instills the film with personal…

Matt Neglia

Very cute, very funny, very sad, very very. I loved this movie a lot. The performances all round are stellar. Especially from Rinko Kikuchi. She absolutely owns Haru as a character. I didn't even for a second doubt that she was real. YOU was amazing as a Japanese…

watchgoodmovies

That Punch Drunk Love poster that kept coming back felt like an old friend

Zach Reagan

Unbelievably fantastical.  A moving and truly real portrait of grief and a surreal, unhinged comedy all at once. Acted and directed to utter perfection with so many stylistic and wildly entertaining sequences filled to the brink with spectacle and originality. Had a scene…

Let'sGetReel

Fun enough but forgettable. It has nothing very fresh to say about grief to the point where it left a bad taste in my mouth

Brother Bro