Product Details

• Actors: Chiaki Kuriyama, Hiroki Narimiya, Tomoka Kurokawa, Motoki Ochiai, Ken Ogata
• Directors: Ken Nikai
• Format: Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: Japanese (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Geneon [Pioneer]
• DVD Release Date: July 4, 2006
• Run Time: 112 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000FC2EWU
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,253 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Last Quarter" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A slow, beautifully sentimental ghost story, July 7, 2006

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Amber White "fateschild" (Tacoma, WA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Last Quarter (DVD)

Last Quarter stars Hyde (japanese rock star) and Chiaki Kuriyama best known in the states for her role as Gogo in Kill Bill.

It is a beautifully filmed story. This is not an action movie. Everyone is cast very well. Also, Last Quarter is based of a manga of the same name.

The story is focused around a girl who is unsatisfied with her life. She is drawn to a mansion and finds a musician there called Adam. He is very otherworldly. Because of her discontent she doesn't want to leave and soon is unable to. After she is in an accident, her (frequently) ex-boyfriend and two other young people try to help her find her way home. Themes of rebirth and karma are expressed through her relationship with Adam.

This is a movie to watch if you are in the mood for some tears.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Real Chiaki, September 21, 2006

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Christopher Evola (Guam) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Last Quarter (DVD)

I was attracted to Last Quarter for its resemblance, on the DVD cover, to quality J-Horror movies. It turned out, however, to be a tear-jerking, stunningly beautiful supernatural love story, with a haunting soundtrack. The visuals ranged from ordinary street scenes in metropolitan Japan to computer graphic altered state sequences in such a way that it became obvious that the film was making a comment on the emotional condition of contemporary Japanese youth. It is full of hope and light. The essence of this vision is unforgettably expressed in the smiles and tears of Chiaki Kuriyama. She plays a 19-year-old girl who, because of devastating emotional shocks in her own life, is vulnerable to exploitation by a couple of dead lovers attempting to reincarnate. Several highly emotional scenes in the film will, I believe, go down as classic scenes in cinema. Chiaki carries everything off with absolute sensitivity. I think she will soon establish a reputation as the most unique romantic lead since Ingrid Bergman. I suppose, however, that because her facial structure allows her to display a rather unprepossessing frown, as in Kill Bill and on the cover of i-D Magazine, she is also being thought of as a monstrously tough chick. This is not her. If you want to see the real Chiaki, watch Last Quarter.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great movie, but very sad, April 27, 2009

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C. Chaney (Bourbonnais, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Last Quarter (DVD)

Admittedly, the only reason I wanted to see this movie in the beginning is because of Hyde since I'm a huge fan of his. But then I read the manga it's based off of (Kagen no Tsuki) and I was completely hooked on the story. It was the first manga I've read that made me cry. And while there are a lot of differences between the manga and the movie (like characters being removed, certain events happening sooner and changing Adam from a blonde haired, blue eyed British rock star to a half Japanese half British rock star) but it still was the same basic story and it was still just as good. The movie was just as beautifully told as the manga, and the actors were all really good. Hyde wasn't in it as much as I would have liked, but after reading the manga, I expected this. Still, it's now one of my favorite movies. I'm not going to write what it's about, because well, there are already reviews that do that, but if you love a tragic love story, this is a must see. I would also recommend reading the manga if you can, because it's more in depth.