Sake-Bomb 2013 123movies

Watch: Sake-Bomb 2013 123movies, Full Movie Online – Sake-Bomb is a cocktail created by dropping a shot of sake into a pint of beer. It’s also a comedic road movie about a sarcastic Asian American and his Japanese cousin. Sebastian is a bitter, self-deprecating wannabe Internet star from Los Angeles. He is recently dumped by his girlfriend and on the look out for someone new. When his cousin Naoto, a naive sake maker from Japan, shows up to find his own ex-girlfriend, Sebastian takes him to northern California to find her. They are a clash of cultures waiting to happen. Someone has to break first. Together they meet a colorful group of characters as they come to grips with who they are and the true nature of the girlfriends they’re pursuing..
Plot: A sarcastic and self-deprecating Asian-American must take his naive Japanese cousin on a road trip along the California coast to find his ex-girlfriend.
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A Bitter Sweet Dark Comedy
Sake-Bomb is a bitter-sweet dark comedy. The film open’s with Naoto getting promoted to the head of the brewery that he works at in Japan. Before he can accept this promotion, he is told to take one week and do something he has always wanted. So Naoto decided to go to America to find his ex-English teacher whom he was in love with and who disappeared one day without even saying goodbye. To help him on his quest, Naoto enlists the help of his Japanese-American cousin, Sebastian. Sebastian is a sarcastic and self-deprecating Asian-American Youtuber, who’s life is stuck in a rut. As he spends more time with his cousin, Sebastian finds himself questioning many of his opinions about life, love, and the world in general. Chrissie Fit also has a small role in the film as Edi. She isn’t in it much, but she is truly hilarious when she is. Sake Bomb is a mixed bag of dark/black comedy mixed with tragic narrative elements and a few heartwarming moments here and there. The film is defiantly crude at times, and it isn’t afraid to hit on a lot of taboos and sensitive subjects. Sometimes this works. Sometimes it doesn’t. However, there were some really good scenes with good character development. And I thought the ending was amazing. I won’t spoil anything because I do hope people will seek this movie out for themselves. It’s a fun little indie movie, but it isn’t easy to access. Here, in the US, the only place I could purchase it was on YouTube, which is kind of lame. Hopefully, it will become available on a streaming service or even get a U. S. DVD release. However, with that said, if you can watch this movie, I would recommend it.

Crude Japanese comedy trying too hard to be American
Sake-Bomb is a Japanese comedy that play’s on Asian stereotypes and crude adult culture in order to display its message deep within, that these stereotypes take advantage of innocent people, and create impressions that define them, instead of showing the beauty of their personalities.

Naoto; played fittingly by Gaku Hamada, takes a visit to Los Angeles to locate his one true love; his ex-teacher and lover Olivia. This romantic journey is tinged by the constant incompetence of his wannabe-internet-star cousin, Sebastian; brought to life by the energetic performance of Eugene Kim. Throughout the journey Naoto is fed these racial stereotypes in order to prevent himself being seen like a FOB (From off the boat) Asian to Sebastian’s American friends. Making the trip mould into a selfish ploy for Sebastian to nurture his ego and turn Naoto into a smaller version of himself. After the constant hate Sebastian received from his controversial opinions about the contrasting cultures, he suddenly began realise the racism surrounding Asian heritage, revealing his vlog (FOB motherf*cker) was only a plea for attention and began to respect his cousin Naoto a lot more because of his mental strength. Despite Naoto’s reason for travelling to Los Angeles was to understand why Olivia left him in Japan, he wasn’t shaken by the harsh reality that she was already married, and was when she was with him in Japan. Instead he saw the bigger picture and showed his strong mentality.

However, the film was covered by crude humour surrounding these controversial stereotypes, which made it hard to find funny. This humour really polluted the message, however sweet it was. Especially with a dreary storyline that became increasingly predictable. Everything seemed to fit together too perfectly.

It’s unfair to say this crudeness overpopulated the whole feature, because there was some funny moments, especially the scene with the racist police man who summarised the cultural blindness of some Americans, making generalisations and acting on the stereotypes previously mentioned by Sebastian. I felt that the crudeness out weighed the genuinely funny parts of the film, which made it loose the essence that was intended for such a sweet character like Naoto. Furthermore, it seemed like it was trying too hard to convey messages about the Japanese to the Americans, making it loose its essence as a Japanese film and adopt a cheesy American viewpoint, which added to the dreariness and predictability of the storyline.

Understandably this humour was only used to make such a controversial issue seem more light hearted, but instead it made the film come across quite tacky. Regardless of this, if you brush away the surface, there is a sweet inside that leaks out gradually; through the (surprisingly long) 82minute duration. The predictability that Sebastian would start to show more tolerance to Naoto’s interest, insensitive to how stereotypical, or how FOB like it was, made this sweetness almost obsolete. But still, it gave a sweet after taste that followed the 70 minutes of on and off cringe worthy comedy

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 23 min (83 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated N/A
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director Junya Sakino
Writer Jeff Mizushima, Junya Sakino
Actors Gaku Hamada, Eugene Kim, Marlane Barnes
Country United States, Japan
Awards 2 wins & 5 nominations
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Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
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