Now, the fate of the world rests on his dating prowess, as he seeks out Spirits in order to charm them. However, there is a third party that believes in saving the spirits: "Ratatoskr," which surprisingly is commanded by Shidou's little sister! Kotori forcibly recruits Shidou after the clash, presenting to him an alternative method of dealing with the danger posed by the Spirits-make them fall in love with him. Soon after, he becomes embroiled in a skirmish between the girl and the Anti-Spirit Team, a ruthless strike force with the goal of annihilating Spirits. He discovers a mysterious girl at its source, who is revealed to be a "Spirit," an otherworldly entity whose appearance triggers a spatial quake. When an imminent spatial quake threatens the safety of Tengu City, he rushes to save her, only to be caught in the resulting eruption. ![]() Shidou Itsuka is a seemingly average high school student who lives with his younger sister, Kotori. Since then, these quakes have been plaguing the world intermittently, albeit on a lighter scale. Thirty years ago, the Eurasian continent was devastated by a supermassive "spatial quake"-a phenomenon involving space vibrations of unknown origin-resulting in the deaths of over 150 million people. ![]() With many more girls popping up his life, all involved with Raku's past somehow, his search for the girl who holds his heart and his promise leads him in more unexpected directions than he expects. Nisekoi follows the daily antics of this mismatched couple who have been forced to get along for the sake of maintaining the city's peace. Unfortunately, reality could not be farther from this whopping lie-Raku and Chitoge fall in hate at first sight, as the girl is convinced he is a pathetic pushover, and in Raku's eyes, Chitoge is about as attractive as a savage gorilla. However, when the American Bee Hive Gang invades his family's turf, Raku's idyllic romantic dreams are sent for a toss as he is dragged into a frustrating conflict: Raku is to pretend that he is in a romantic relationship with Chitoge Kirisaki, the beautiful daughter of the Bee Hive's chief, so as to reduce the friction between the two groups. Now, years later, Raku has grown into a typical teenager, and all he wants is to remain as uninvolved in his yakuza background as possible while spending his school days alongside his middle school crush Kosaki Onodera. Now, all he has to go on is a pendant with a lock, which can only be unlocked with the key which the girl took with her when they parted. Ten years ago, Raku made a promise to his childhood friend. Even his minor films (like Party) are pretty good.Raku Ichijou, a first-year student at Bonyari High School, is the sole heir to an intimidating yakuza family. Much of Manoel's work is not on DVD, but if you get a chance to see any of his work, please do. I was rather disappointed at the crowds for these films (there was only 10 people in the audience for Magic Mirror, only 6 for The Fifth Empire), but I stayed for the duration of both films. It looks like a projection mistake when I first saw it, but then realised it was supposed to look like that, it made a sort of unique sense. There is even a strange, dreamlike scene that takes "place" in Venice. The performances are all first rate, and the film has a wonderful, languid pacing to it (like most of Manoel's films). The plot here is actually quite funny, and this is one of de Oliveira's most surreal, touching, and beguiling films. 2 con men (one of whom has been just released from jail and the other is trying to go "clean", but doesn't seem to be trying too hard) devise a scheme to milk her out of some money and hire a local girl to portray the Virgin Mary for her. ![]() It concerns itself with a rich woman (played by Leonor Silveira, a mainstay in Manoel's films) who has a strong desire to witness the Virgin Mary. This one has one of the more surreal plots of any de Oliveira film. This was part of a 2 film retrospective (for lack of a better term) at the Anthology Film Archives in NYC of recent works by Manoel de Oliveira (the other film was The Fifth Empire-Yesterday as Today).
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