Michael_Elliott
JAWS IN JAPAN (2009) BOMB (out of 4)Miki and Mai are on vacation when they go back to the home of a strange man when even stranger things begin to happen.JAWS IN JAPAN also goes by the title PSYCHO SHARK but no matter what you call it the film is a complete dud that lacks anything good. Well, let me take that back. Both Nonami Takizawa and Airi Nakajima do a good job in their roles as the annoying girl but everything else is pretty awful from start to finish.The biggest problem is that nothing here makes too much sense. At times there's weird video footage of the friends, which makes you wonder if it's going for THE RING type of rip-off. There's a shower scene, which I'm guessing is meant towards PSYCHO. Then there's the god-awful looking shark that finally shows up. None of it makes any sense and even worse is the fact that this lasts just 69-minutes.Be on the look out for the shower sequences where it appears the actresses didn't want to be nude so they re-enact the shower motions with their bathing suits on.
Uriah43
This movie begins with three young, Japanese women frolicking in their bikinis on a beach in Okinawa and recording everything on a video recorder. One month later two other Japanese women travel to the same beach and they are also given a free video recorder while they are staying at the same small hotel. Anyway, as the story evolves, one of the young ladies by the name of "Mai" (Ari Nakajima) develops a crush on one of the local men which leaves her companion, "Miki" (Nonami Takizawa) all by herself while she strolls on the beach with her new boyfriend. As luck would have it, Miki discovers a video tape of the three ladies mentioned earlier and while watching it she begins to see certain things not meant for public viewing. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this film had a number of flaws which really affected the overall quality of the movie. To be more specific, the acting, camera work, dialogue, special effects and just about everything else was quite bad. As a matter of fact, about the only good thing going for this movie was the presence of the five young ladies mentioned earlier who were all quite cute. But even so, none of them could have possibly saved this film from the major flaws listed previously
tdrish
Jaws In Japan is all flawed. Everything. To think that we went from the original 1975 money making summer blockbuster....to this. I mean, even Jaws 2 was an inferior sequel, but they kept on cranking them out, to the point, that they weren't even numerical sequels anymore. Jaws 3 wasn't really Jaws 3, it was Jaws 3D, because everyone knows the coolest thing back in 1983 was seeing a shark in 3 dimensions, am I wrong? Jaws 4 wasn't really Jaws 4, that was Jaws The Revenge. Did Jaws really get revenge? Oh, forget about that, you want the real truth about that movie, take a look at the reviews, it's all true: fake looking shark, lame script, stupid kills. Then, just this week, I found out that there was a Jaws 5! Jaws In Japan? No, it was called Cruel Jaws. Released in 1995. TV movie, so how violent can it be? How good can it be! Now, they made Jaws In Japan in 2009...needless to say, these movies just get worse and worse respectively in the years. Jaws In Japan, however, doesn't just hit the bottom of the barrel, it digs beneath the barrel, straight into ground, dragging whatever soul remains of the franchise with it. I mean, to think, the taglines read "The girls are in danger!" Really? They're in danger? Well, it's awfully funny, that girls are in danger, and they're laughing, smiling, swimming. You don't even hear the Jaws theme of the shark creeping up on them. Wonderful shite, Japan movie makers! Incredible danger lurks in the oddest spots in this movie, away from the water. So many shots of the TV set, I thought I was watching Poltergeist. So many shots of the shower, I thought it was Psycho. Oh, speaking of psycho, this one is aka Psycho Shark. Really? Psycho Shark? The movie is only 1 hour and 9 minutes long, and you see no shark the first 1 hour. Okay, Jaws , you've got 9 minutes left to make your claim. Needless to say, the body count is very low, along with the morale and quality of this film, which most appears to be shot on a camcorder...if they even still make those. Girls shower in bikinis? It's as if the set was so cheap, that they couldn't pay them to take it off. Along with that, we have excessive talking....and talking...and more talking. Jaws In Japan had more jaws flapping then, then shark shots. Shark shots, that's a good one, no shots are fired at the shark. The final scene in the movie will guarantee an empty box of popcorn flung at the TV screen. Verdict is in: The movie sucks. Any more Jaws movies made, I will dismiss them...because you're not going to ever prove to me that they're getting better with age.
manjodude
Wow! This is arguably the worst international movie I've seen. I think no one had a clue about what they were doing, right from the script writers, the director or even the actors who looked confused about the happenings. The movie is titled Psycho shark. Although we don't get to see the shark at all till the very end of the movie, maybe the title is aptly put because this shark is truly unique, as it attacks on land too! Don't believe me? Watch the movie till the end to figure this out. The only good point I could mention here is the start, which brings excitement & suspense to the viewers but after that, the movie goes on a downward slide till the big crash at the end.Verdict: If you're a psycho, you wouldn't mind this movie. Or watch this to be one :)
