The rich American lady Katherine returns to Kyoto for a personal reason, but gets involved in investigating a kidnapping. Again together with her sidekick, the historian Ichirou.
Though this second movie about Katherine has the same setting and many of the same actors as the first, it has a different director. The style seems similar though, and I am unable to perceive a difference between the directors.
The biggest difference is in the subgenre. While the first movie was a puzzle mystery, offering an intellectual challenge, the second movie, as a kidnapping scenario, is more about following one clue at a time, while offering suspense.
Katherine as a detective is not as super-intelligent or peculiar as some colleagues like Sherlock Holmes. That's fine, since she is not a detetive by profession. She has a distinct personality and style, though. Although upper class, she seems like a person that could realistically exist. One trend-breaking difference is that her story contains a little bit of romance, and she does show feelings sometimes.
The sidekick Ichirou also has a distint personality and fits in well with Katherine. Still, he seems weaker as a main character, because he is over-protective in a whiny way sometimes.
The movie has a lot of contents of various kind. Some mystery, some suspence, some romance, and some jokes. It is quite good and has its own style, but is unoriginal in some ways.
Though this second movie about Katherine has the same setting and many of the same actors as the first, it has a different director. The style seems similar though, and I am unable to perceive a difference between the directors.
The biggest difference is in the subgenre. While the first movie was a puzzle mystery, offering an intellectual challenge, the second movie, as a kidnapping scenario, is more about following one clue at a time, while offering suspense.
Katherine as a detective is not as super-intelligent or peculiar as some colleagues like Sherlock Holmes. That's fine, since she is not a detetive by profession. She has a distinct personality and style, though. Although upper class, she seems like a person that could realistically exist. One trend-breaking difference is that her story contains a little bit of romance, and she does show feelings sometimes.
The sidekick Ichirou also has a distint personality and fits in well with Katherine. Still, he seems weaker as a main character, because he is over-protective in a whiny way sometimes.
The movie has a lot of contents of various kind. Some mystery, some suspence, some romance, and some jokes. It is quite good and has its own style, but is unoriginal in some ways.
