| Sennen no Koi Hikaru Genji Monogatari |
| Rating: * * * Director: Tonko Horikawa Running time: 143 minutes Language: Japanese Now showing |
Fantasy is hot now, with "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" in theaters and "Lord of the Rings" arriving in spring. The former is getting the back of many a critic's hand (Salon's Stephanie Zacharek compared it to "a play mounted at a school for rich kids"), while the latter is being hailed as a cinematic Second Coming. Whatever this says about the reviewers, most of whom are more emotionally invested in Tolkien than Rowling, both films are going to make pots of money and fill screens with wizards, elves and other beings derived from British fantasy writing for years to come.
Yuki Amami as Hikaru Genji in Tonko Horikawa's "Sennen no Koi -- Hikaru Genji Monogatari"