Mai-Chan's Daily Life: The Movie

I love this movie. Excellent addition to my collection

I never read the manga so I can't compare. I love this movie. A really fun ero guro. Very bloody and gory, lots of up skirt shots, and some nudity.

The movie sucks but I got it for collection purpose

There are probably as many ways to legitimately criticize a film as there are films to criticize. I've always felt as if the most damning criticism was simply to be dismissive. A dismissive review is an attempt to negate the film entirely. When Blood Feast was initially released the Los Angeles Times review took all of one line- "Blood Feast is a blot on the film industry, it should be erased."Mai-Chan's Daily Life is given about the same level of respect by the two reviews it has managed to elicit. I strongly feel that Mai-Chan deserves a much better evaluation than it has thus far been given.Mai-Chan's Daily Life is essentially a political film and in making the statement I clearly think it intends to make, the film simply never wavers from its central, powerful argument. I understand why some viewers may find parts of it distasteful. Consider this however- any film in which a sadistic butcher pulls the heart out of the still living victim, itself an impossibility, and then takes the heart and moves it up to the victims mouth where the perpetrator eats part of it while trying to entice the victim to join her in this fresh snack, is a film that clearly intends to have you identify with and pity the victim, while simultaneously making it as clear as it is possibly can that Mai-Chan is in no sense a victim in the usual way. I found it very powerful and stunningly true that Mai-Chan works as an extraordinary good metaphor for the billions of people who because of their precarious positions are forced into very real and very degrading lives.Virtually every minute of the film demonstrates the maid Mai-Chan has, after many similar situations come to internalize the contempt and barely hidden hatred of her masters. In an evolutionary sense Mai-Chan is unquestionably superior to all of the characters that surround and torment her. She has it within to end all of it with horrendous consequences for all those who have hurt her, but a part of the films brilliance is that she never even considers such an action. Their incessant cruelty has taken from her even the ability to respond in an assertive self respecting, self protecting way. In one exquisitely sad moment Mai-Chan reminds the new maid (and a budding sociopathic torturer) to be very careful while they clean a particular room in which the very wealthy master displays small decorative items, which we never see, and that mean nothing to Mai-Chan. The master's feelings have largely displaced Mai-Chan's own.Essentially Mai-Chan's Daily Life is a very sad tale, very powerfully told, about a young woman who thinks like a child and permits herself to be eternally exploited. She is an inexhaustible resource. Mai-Chan wants love where it cannot exist. She exists in the man made hell, an environment only she has the extraordinary power to alter, but the tragedy is we know she will never do it. She will never even know she can do it. In the final line of this excellent film she speaks optimistically about the possibility of affection, perhaps even love. A sad wish to sustain her until the next slaughter.

Not really sure about the "shocking comic" the DVD box says it is inspired from, but this was not the type of horror movie I was expecting based on some previous reviews I watched on YouTube.I have watched some pretty violent films before. This really wasn't as shocking as others made it out to be but still had gratuitous amounts of violence and very little plot.To summarize: it's about two maids and their sadistic employers. One maid can magically heal herself from any wound she sustains no matter how fatal it is, and the other enjoys watching her suffer. The two employers catch onto this and well... I will let you fill in the gaps.It was all really pretentious with its approach and I can tell this is low budget even when compared to similar Japanese films. The plot doesn't really go anywhere besides jumping from one tortuous extreme to the next. But at least it is short? Just slightly over a hour if you include opening and ending credits. I feel like if this film got an extra half hour it might have had time to add something to the plot or give more character development. Give some extra time for the audience to grow attached to the titular Mai who has all this torturous stuff happen to her. The closest we get to this is close to the end of the film when Mai reflects on her situation and if she can truly love someone while trying to enjoy her lunch (which is difficult for her considering she previously had her tongue bitten off).I would say the most shocking imagery is in the opening and ending credits. I assume the editors decided to show off real panels from the comic that inspired this film. These panels are far more grotesque than anything you actually see in the movie. The only bonus features are a trailer (pretty standard) and a half hour behind the scenes mini-doc. If you watch this it at least pads out the entire watch time to 90 minutes.I wouldn't recommend this unless you are the type that enjoys watching some gross and extreme violence or are a fan of the comic (which if you are I suggest getting some help). But it is really not that long and only 20 bucks. So hard for me to be too critical of it. I assume the directors and writers made this for some film festival maybe to even catch the eye of some investors that may have financed a crisper, longer and hefty budget cinematic version? Just speculation. There seems to be a market for violent exploitation cinema out of Japan and "Mai-Chan's Daily Life: Bloody Carnal Residence" seems to be trying to tap into that market.

Loosely based on the manga of the same name. If you haven't read the original manga, you might find the violence to be intense. If you have read the original manga, this is kinda tame. The movie itself is an hour long; there's also a 30-minute extra where the only thing that gets mutilated is the Fourth Wall.