The great happiness space: Tale of a Osaka love theif (2006)

Kim recommnded me this niceee website that provide free online documentary , and there's a Japanese documentary about the Japanese 'Host club' culture, which is veryy interesting. (Thank you, kim)

I found it quite inspiring for me as in the way how to structure the film, how to portrait different characters, as well as the editing. Because for our documentary, we are still looking for the exact approach and angles to film Stacey (our main character), and also how to ask the question properly in order to lead out the answer we want.

This documentary honestly present how the customers of the host club feel and how those host feels, and especially the way it edit it actually teist the audience a bit in the end. The audience will finally find out the fact that the hosts are not the only one who lies, and the customers are not as loyal as it was portrayed at teh beginning.

I like the way it was edited, it dipicted the girl customers were loyal and sort-of innocent at the beginnng, and then intercut with Issei's (the owner of the host club) confession of his lie, how he lie to every customer, and fool them around in a relationship, as a techniques and skills to make money from them. But from the second half of the documentary, it starts to reveal the fact that actaully the girls customer are not purely been fooled by the hosts; they are aware of it! They are not as innocent they were portrayed, relatively, the hosts are the one that audience are aympathized with.

I hope our group can make a good one like this, if we can lead Stacey to speak up her experience and past in a natural way, that would be great.

Can't wait to hear Chrisitne's feedback on our documentary, and hopefully she can give us some adivce on the filming approach. :)

The great happiness space: Tale of a Osaka love theif (2006)