It had a very strong effect on me--I loved it, but it upset me so profoundly I can't even think about it without having nightmares.
I am not going to attempt to argue you out of an emotional reaction to a piece of art, because that would be patently stupid, but I find it interesting (in the genuine sense, not the carefully worded eyebrow raise) that you and ron_drummond both report an aesthetically appreciative, otherwise mixed-to-negative feeling about the film; I had no expectations going in, but I did not find it either disturbing or upsetting.* I agree that it's a tragic revenge opera, but it has a remarkably good ending for its genre.
* Past a couple of scenes which I imagine are intended to be: the blackmail of Nagiko's father, the publisher's writing on twelve-year-old Nagiko, the book of Jerome in the publisher's possession. Pretty much any action the publisher takes is disturbing, really. But he's not the whole story.
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I am not going to attempt to argue you out of an emotional reaction to a piece of art, because that would be patently stupid, but I find it interesting (in the genuine sense, not the carefully worded eyebrow raise) that you and
* Past a couple of scenes which I imagine are intended to be: the blackmail of Nagiko's father, the publisher's writing on twelve-year-old Nagiko, the book of Jerome in the publisher's possession. Pretty much any action the publisher takes is disturbing, really. But he's not the whole story.