The initial set-up is reminiscent of a number of Japanese films right back to Ozu: an elderly rural couple dies in an accident, leaving their self-involved children snapping at each other, with only the son's wife a beacon of long-suffering decency. As in
Tokyo Story, therefore, the only character of the second generation who displays altruism is the one isn't a blood relative. There is clearly a sociological preoccupation in Japanese culture with the children who go off to the cities being ungrateful.
But
Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers! is also a black comedy of sorts, with the customary unfathomable quirks of Japanese examples of the genre familiar to anyone who's seen Takashi Miike's output. It doesn't really work as such, but there is some fun to be had from seeing how much more of a bitch the elder daughter, a failed actress, turns into as she torments her younger sister for a perceived offence from years back, with her comeuppance inexorably nearing.
6/10
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