Come Marry Me Film Review

Throughout this film, I kept looking to the horizon for the appearance of a giant lizard stomping on all before him. But the only stomping in this Ishirô Honda film is that of young hearts. Before Honda directed Godzilla in 1954, he had already made a number of conventional films for Toho - and even after the enormous success of Godzilla, he continued for a few years to do so. But by the time of this film in 1966, he was into Kaiju and little else. Twelve straight Kaiju films with Godzilla to Frankenstein to outer space invasions to killer mushrooms - and after this romance he went right back to what made him famous for the rest of his career. So, this feels like a real oddity coming from him. A romantic musical that has the drama of a sandwich at lunch time. It is filled with fresh-faced attractive actors and is nicely filmed with some good location shooting. The girls look as if they came out of an adorable factory and the men have a young Sonny Chiba vibe.

Masako (Keiko Sawai) is a single young woman who works as a waitress at an upscale hotel and helps provide for her mother and two siblings. A lack of money is always on her mind. Going to work one morning she spots a fellow pushing his car with a very attractive girl at the wheel. She helps push the car though it looks as if she is weaker than a kitten. Heave-ho she keeps yelling. The man, Tamatsu (Yuzo Kayama) is totally charmed by her and his sister in the front (Yoko Naito) tells him that is the girl for you. Coincidentally, with a party he goes to that restaurant for dinner and thinks it is fate. At the same time, the older brother of a friend of hers, keeps asking her to give things to his brother. And he falls for Masako like a ton of bricks. Like I said, she is very cute. The film basically comes down to her having to decide which of the men to marry. One is wealthy, good-looking, sings and is very nice. The other one (Toshio Kurosawa) is rough around the edges, makes a living as a taxi driver and is full of good spirits. There are no villains in this film, but I still think she made the wrong choice.