Saw this last night, the first of six Japanese films I'll be seeing at the Leeds International Film Festival this year. I suspect this is going to do my head in.
The title Koi no Mon (恋の門) is I think a pun on the names of the main characters, but also apparently means ‘gate of love’. It's about a hectic romance between two rather mad manga artists.
Koi Aoki (MATSUDA Ryuhei), the bloke, is obsessed with drawing what he calls ‘manga’ on stones, while the cute Koino (SAKAI Wakana) draws more conventional manga and is seriously into cosplay.
I found this film very funny, even if I didn't know exactly what was going on a lot of the time (something that I find often happens with Japanese film, especially anime). It makes great effect of pointing fun at particular bits of Japanese culture and stereotype, like the regimented nature of office work, and the obsessiveness of manga fans.
There are a couple of short reviews of Koi no Mon here, about half way down. Also, a review in Italian and another review in English.
Oh, if you see this stick around after the credits. There's a very short extra bit at the end, but we just missed it.
I tried to find a picture from the film (tells a thousand words and all that), but Google didn't come up with anything. There are, however, many pictures of Sakai-san. Here's one of the few where she's not in a bikini (from a Japanese desktop wallpapers site):
Oh, hang on, that's two blog messages in a row with pictures of pretty Japanese girls in. I suppose it's easier than finding interesting things to say…