5.6 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 1.5 | |
Overall | 1.5 |
Horror | 100% |
Fantasy | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080i
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Japanese: LPCM 2.0
English
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region A (B, C untested)
Movie | 0.5 | |
Video | 2.0 | |
Audio | 2.0 | |
Extras | 2.5 | |
Overall | 1.5 |
A 2014 production, “Mai-Chan’s Daily Life” is an adaptation of a manga first published in 2003. Detailing fantasy, sadism, and submission, the material doesn’t lend itself to a cinematic inspection, but that isn’t about to stop writer/director Sato Sade from trying. Armed with a commercial-grade camera, willing actresses, and a plan to work out sexual fetishes, the helmer aims to make his take on “Mai-Chan’s Daily Life” as repellent as humanly possible, determined to bring most of the manga’s extremity to the screen, for as cheaply as possible. It’s backyard filmmaking at its worst.
Shot on video with commercial-grade cameras, "Mai-Chan's Daily Life" is about a far away from a filmic viewing experience as a movie gets. The AVC encoded image (1.78:1 aspect ratio) presentation is heavily processed with toxic colors and layers of distortion, but there's still a nagging problem with artifacting, finding banding seeping into almost every shot. Detail reaches about as far as the low-wattage cinematography allows, pulling out textures in gore and flesh. The feature looks like a mess, and the Blu-ray manages to communicate such unrepentant ugliness most of the time.
The 2.0 LPCM sound mix preserves the movie's amateurish assembly without much fuss, following surges and silences without repair, exposing the hilariously dismal production's tentative grasp on the basics of microphone use. Music generally smothers dialogue exchanges, making actors away from the camera difficult to hear. Atmospherics are expectedly hollow, while sound effects are blunt, with squishing a favorite sound to explore.
"Mai-Chan's Daily Life" is primarily about satisfying fetishes, with Sato Sade making sure to include as many upskirt shots as possible, also salivating over heels and stockings, eventually graduating to water sports. I'm not sure who this movie is for. I'm not sure I want to know either. Personal kinks are none of my business, but basic filmmaking capability is always valued when exploring the wonders of perversion. "Mai-Chan's Daily Life" is as unconvincing and incompetent as it gets.
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