the audience applauded

Memorable, crazy movie

How sad is this?

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Nana may suffer from being a condensed version of an expansive Manga universe, but it also knows exactly how much time to spend on individual plots strands. Nana is a coming of age, female friendship film that handles immature and young emotions with absolute maturity. The most impressive aspect was creating a relationship between one of the protagonists boyfriends and another girl. It easily could have made him a villain, but instead took an unbiased look at how the relationship came to be. Luckily, for a film focused on bands, the music is relatively good. Nakashima and Miyazaki both inhabit their roles well and build up a believable friendship. Highly enjoyable, even if it doesn't quite feel complete.

so many problems where to start...too many story lines, no clear protagonist, voice-over that didn't add to the story, a subplot with the boyfriend that should've been cut and then it'd have been better and shorter,the lesbian subtext between the two nanas, no clear goal for nana the rocker. and most of the time nana non-rocker is like the best friend who somehow has her own movie though it's still the main actress' movie.im sure the free flow of scenes works well in manga form and it seems a lot of the manga fans also enjoyed the movie, but for lovers of movies in general, i found this to be meandering and aimless and slow. it's a shame because there's a lot of acting talent here in ryuhei matsuda who was excellent in renai shasshin. unlike others, i found the look of the film very muted and boring. it reminded me a lot of love letter down to the snow scenes and music, but that movie was better.

Although it came well-recommended, I had already read and disliked the author's work on the terrible series Paradise Kiss, so I was reluctant, however popular the Nana movie ended up being. As I watched it, my worst fears were realized as Paradise Kiss replayed itself in my mind: few likable characters, in this case a scant single character at the end of the movie, who is the most abused of them all and never manages to set that right; ridiculously and needlessly angst circumstances that never quite unfold believably; a miserable setting that makes you wish yourself far, far away from it instead of wanting to become a part of it; and overall too much diddling around and wasting time with useless things that don't add anything to the plot. This movie could've been an hour shorter and lost nothing.Add to this incoherent editing that make the plot even more difficult to follow -- it's as convoluted and confusing as they get, with people doing things for no real reason, or no actual explained reason -- and some of the most prefab, manufactured music I've ever heard in a film, and you have a formula for disaster. I found myself often wondering how the crew managed to make time seem to pass so slowly, and how on earth they managed to find actors willing to flush their personalities down the toilet to portray some of the most insipid, unsympathetic characters ever to parade across the screen. To boot, most of them are so sickly thin and cardboard, both in appearance and acting, that you'll probably end up stopping the film to go get something to eat out of sheer pity for the bone-skinny actresses chosen to play the lead parts. Really healthy message to send out there, to something that will be seen by countless young girls I'm sure. Not that I'd want to be any of the characters, if I myself were a young girl. The real message of this film is that nice people finish last, and that you might as well throw away your dreams, a direct slap in the face to what you could tell it was trying to give as a message. I have no time for films with that kind of outlook.It's two hours of your life that you'll never get back. You'd do better to spend it with a bad movie that knows it's bad, rather than one like this that apparently thinks it's the best thing to hit the screen. As things are, I can only hope never to hear "Glamorous Sky" or any of the pop machine terrors cranked out by "Trapnest" again; too much of the film is spent on Trapnest's awful concert, bringing it to a standstill for at least twenty minutes! This kind of amateurish film-making really deserves no place in formal cinema, and certainly not with its budget. It's a classic case of someone not reining in a director who decided to milk his budget for all it was worth.

I wonder if people that weren't already fans of the Nana manga would really understand the movie. I think that unless you had read the manga, a lot of the movie might be lost for viewers. The movie script was almost word for word from the manga, it was pretty fun to see it all on the big screen though.As for the characters, both of the Nana's were perfect for their roles. Yasu was good, Nobu was not what I expected (but it worked), but Shin...poor Shin. He looked like he was in his 30's...they kind of killed his character, which is a shame since he is my favorite! Shoji, Jun and Kyosuke were all eerily perfect for their roles. I think they were the funniest part of the whole movie.