LOOK: flashing fairylights around the windows, sticky vinyl on the floor, a chunky, riveted length of industrial steel piping precariously suspended from the ceiling - after all, the place is ...

In bringing Hikaru Nakamura's hit manga "Arakawa Anda za Burijji (Arakawa Under the Bridge)" to the screen, director Ken Iizuka ("Sairen," "Summer Nude") abandoned any attempt at realism from the ...