Too Tired to Die

1998
R
1h 37m

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Keith is a Japanese twenty-something who is followed by Death in various disguises. When he finally faces her, Death tells him that he has only 12 hours to live and he needs to make the most... Read allKeith is a Japanese twenty-something who is followed by Death in various disguises. When he finally faces her, Death tells him that he has only 12 hours to live and he needs to make the most of it.Keith is a Japanese twenty-something who is followed by Death in various disguises. When he finally faces her, Death tells him that he has only 12 hours to live and he needs to make the most of it.

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Trivia
Laura Kirk's debut.

Quotes
Death: He said that you stopped him for no reason.
Kenji: No reason? No, I saw him in my dreams. And you... Who are you?
Death: I... I am...
Young Arab: Chukhram.
Death: He also wants to thank you.
Kenji: Thank me? For what?
Death: He's been running all his life. He must have been tired. We must go.
Kenji: Wait wait wait. I don't get it, okay?
Death: [smirking] How do you want me to disappear?
Kenji: What?
Death: Never mind. I'll see you.
[gives Kenji a kiss on the cheek]

Connections
References The Bank Dick (1940)

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5/10

Death ought to be more exciting

It's about death, this movie, and the struggle to find meaning to one's life, when having only a few hours to do it. Big subjects, indeed, worthy of a great artist - needing one, really. Writer/director Chin doesn't suffice.

The film plays with classic themes, related to this topic - such as the chess game with the reaper in Bergman's 'Seventh Seal'. Bergman's knight loses the game, but wins the lives of those he has learned to hold dear. In this movie, nothing is gained, and so one wonders: is anything at all lost?

There's an interesting atmosphere in the film, sort of an arty New York setting through an immigrant's eyes, but neither that nor anything else is really followed through. What must be meant to have some profound undercurrent, remains just surface - and a quickly sketched surface, at that. It would have been better to make this film a pure comedy.