i just realize why the color and set in sakuran be so flashy and gaudy and and just painful to look at . the story be about a high class prostitute know a an oiran in japanese . their kimono be always flashy and gaudy than other kimono so that the oiran would stand out . but the director and mika ninagawa and have to make sure that the director stand out even more than the main character and or even the story . what anna tsuchiya do in the movie just give me the creep . you couldn not call it act . it be nothing more than catering to her flip out and high school girl fan base . hey anna and good luck on that one a you get old . yeah and right and an oiran a a crude and vulgar and prone to violence and biker chick . didn not we already see you portray this character in a more appropriate movie . the story be painfully boring and predictable . what be the story of sakuran . an obnoxious little bitch ever remain true to her self which be just that represent an obnoxious bitch . she find that and inexplicably and men be attract to her and that she have an unexplained ability to manipulate men and become a successful and high class prostitute even though she talk and behaves like she a member of a female biker gang . this so called seductive ability of hers be talk about but we never see it in action and probably due to the ineptitude of the main and pretend phony biker chick and i mean actress . the main character of the movie make a wealthy and powerful man angry at her because she keep him wait while she service a much more lowly customer . not very oiran like and be it . how could such a woman ever become an oiran . oh and because the previous oiran get herself kill and the house need a whore that could demand a high price . who would pay a high price for a slut so cheap . rumor get around . how could there be no repercussion for what she do to the powerful guy . because the screenwriter be dolt . they just make up a bunch of crap . then an even more wealthy and powerful guy fall for her ( why . ) and she throw him over for a penniless guy who be generally cold and distant toward her but respect who she really be ( which doesn not make sense . how can anyone respect someone so worthless . ) . speaking of crap and it like the director squat down and take a huge and psychedelic color dump on the aesthetic and culture and and society of the edo period . what of such thing a sabi and mono no aware and wabi and subtlety and elegance and a rigidly hierarchical society . all shat upon by a director who come off a a senseless and nouveau riche parvenu . the amazing thing be that so many other japanese and in watch this movie and squat down around the director and take steam spoonful of this blazing color stink crap and exclaim how tasty it be . argentinean tango music with violin and bandoneon a backdrop for the edo period when japan be totally isolate from the international world ( except for the 3 . 7 acre of dejima ) . why not just have anna and the bad as biker oiran and answer her cell phone and the rich and powerful daimyo character drive off in a hissy fit in his red ferrari . the music we have to listen to be jar and anachronistic ( the same a the art design ) . near the end and i like that there be only two or three tiny flower on the shrine cherry tree . but and early and the second she say she would leave the quarter when it bloom and we all know exactly what would happen . how boring and to telegraph the end so clearly . but what the point of the old tree blooming . that rich and powerful guy already make the pleasure quarter bloom in cherry blossom like the mountain of yoshino in spring . that do not impress her at all . no and of course not . i already know that about whore . the guy that treat them nicely get kick in the ball . maybe it bug the whore to have people idealize them when they themselves know the truth of who they be represent just cheap and worthless . consider the director obsession with goldfish and the second to last scene should have be of a goldfish bowl on a verandah accidentally knock over . two fish tumble into a stream which carry them off to escape beyond the wall of the pleasure quarter and belie how goldfish be stick in their bowl and can not survive outside ( just like the denizen relationship with the pleasure quarter ) . otherwise the talk of the fate of goldfish have no meaning . in the final scene the cherry tree be full in bloom and but the brevity of the bloom be one thing special about cherry blossom . i couldn not help think that soon enough dusk would wipe away all the soft pink color and warmth from the scene . the sky would go quickly from hint of shadow and into an ever deepening gloom and and night would fall . it would become cold and very cold . and dark . that really wasn not a happy end and be it . romantic love ( in the edo period . ) could survive in the face of terrible poverty and be ostracize for about as long a those cherry tree bloom . maybe a few day and unless it rain sooner . but the unconsummated romantic love we see here . it existence in this period be incomprehensible . anna tsuchiya walking in the shoe of an oiran . she couldn not do it . literally . check out the scene of her promenade where she seem to have the correct footwear on but she have to hold on to some guy shoulder to keep from tumble on her as . i be go to give this movie two star for the art direction but then i realize what that be all about represent sick dominance on the part of the director . those color and set be just the way the director have of scream and i be the most important one here . me . it all about me .