Liverleaf, a Japanese Movie that was like John Wick if John Wick was not a hardened assassin and instead a traumatized Teenage girl.
Liverleaf For my listening project this weekend, I decided to rewatch a movie that burned itself into my heart. Liverleaf is a movie following the life of Nozaki, a young teenage Tokyoite girl who recently moved into a small rural town because her dad found a job there. Since she moved to this town she and her family gets ruthlessly harassed by her classmates to the point her entire house gets burnt down in a fire started by one of her bullies. At that point, she goes from innocent teenage girl to John Wick on a mission of revenge against the assailants. SPOILERS TIME This movie does not shy away from brutality. The police and teachers , as per usual in movies like these, are irrelevant and so useless that the teenagers get to fight each other like it's Battle Royale. This movie is so fundamentally ridiculous that it is awesome and the best movie I have ever watched. In fact, everyone in this movie are pretty much on the extremes of a ...