Carmen suffers through a hard life as a stripper when she falls in love with an artist who is engaged to marry a woman with a large dowry who sleeps around. Carmen's pal has a baby from a man who ditched her that never stops crying. Sudo (the artist) deals with an overbearing mother in law who's running for office and a woman after him to pay her off for her own kid he left her with.
This is basically a soap opera of twists set in early 50's post war Japan. It's sort of wacky, sort of dark, sort of awful. Nobody is likeable really and poor Carmen is treated like dirt. I think it was supposed to be light and funny but it's more depressing. Maybe it was the cultural difference at play but the first Carmen movie was much better, and it wasn't that great either. This ends with a to be continued note, but it never was... oh well.
This is basically a soap opera of twists set in early 50's post war Japan. It's sort of wacky, sort of dark, sort of awful. Nobody is likeable really and poor Carmen is treated like dirt. I think it was supposed to be light and funny but it's more depressing. Maybe it was the cultural difference at play but the first Carmen movie was much better, and it wasn't that great either. This ends with a to be continued note, but it never was... oh well.
