Turtles Swim Faster Than Expected
Katakura Suzume (Ueno Juri) is a really bored housewife. Her most important job is to feed her husband's turtle. Desperate for something else, she answers a secret ad that she accidently finds for a..spy agency. Suddenly, she's working for one of the weirdest couples you've ever seen. Come to find out, she's not the only spy in the neighborhood. The mission they giver her; act normal and do not act suspicious. (http://community.livejournal.com/asian_movies/)
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Turtles Swim Faster Than Expected

2005
Comedy
1h 30m
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Avg Percentile 47.64% from 36 total ratings

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Rated 04 Apr 2009
60
49th
First half of the film was good, lots of funny parts. The film started to drop off afterwards, instead of being silly, seemed to try and take a more serious approach, which is too bad. Would love to have seen more of Yu Aoi.
Rated 08 Jul 2019
78
82nd
miki's saddest, most existential film
Rated 26 Jun 2021
70
66th
Nothing like you have ever seen. Absurd, nonsensical comedy woven masterfully into a seemingly boring life of a Japanese housewife, which honestly is far from boring. There's barely any plot and it didn't really matter as the cast did an amazing job holding the very non-linear structure together. Brewing inside the inconspicuous plot is a rich layer of philosophy of life, isolation, urbanism and absurdity. Brilliant stuff.
Rated 10 Mar 2021
32
28th
I'll always have a soft spot for stories filled with absurd coincidences and goofy amateur sleuthing Scooby Doo bullshit, but this was just too cloyingly quirky and hyperactively over-directed for my taste (I knew exactly what I was in for when both a freeze-frame and a parachuting turtle appeared in quick succession within the first few minutes). Less calculated and slick than, say, Amelie, and therefore preferable, but still too close for comfort.

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